Justcash:

[b]The unfortunate incidents in Abia state these few days are really disheartening. From the story of a child forced to have S'ex with his mother, to the story of the kidnapping of Nursery/Primary school kids, there is no doubt that the state is in a mess.
These events show how useless the Nigerian police is. I will not be surprised if the police are very much aware of the culprits, but prefer to wait for ransom to be paid for them to get their shares.
The simple solution to the anarchy in Abia state is the re-introduction of the AVS (Abia state Vigilante service), popularly called the "Bakassi vigilante. They should be introduced to carry out activities the way they used to do it. There is an urgent need for a security outfit that will make those criminals to desist from their heinous activities.
The Nigerian policemen are a set of hungry men, who are very scared of losing their lives, and prefer to think of their families than protect the lives they were employed to protect. The worst part is that they are given loaded guns to carry about, and use in harassing Nigerians.
I still cannot understand why the Nigerian police force seem insolvent, and very useless. I also cannot understand why the Nigerian government cannot just introduce state policing. It will be very much more effective than what we have now.
If the Bakassi boys file out in their usual blood thirsty manner, Those criminals will chill like cubes of ice block

However, the Orji's may have their heads chopped off first by the Bakassi boys. So, I bet T.Orji would rather live in the Anarchy than heed to my suggestion.

Very disheartening.[/b]

chyz:

the Bakassi is still in Aba. I was there early this year.They patrol the streets in their trucks.The thing about them is that there is not factions stationed in each neighborhood or pivital corners which makes things even easier for kidnappers.they go once or twice around an area and thats it for a long period of time.

ayusman16:

and who do you think will be recruited if not the same Kidnappers?

Justcash:


The Present set of touts that you see patrolling the streets of Aba are not the same "bakassi boys" of old. I dnt know if they bear the same name, but those touts are just members of a petty vigilante group that acts under the pronouncement of Nigeria's extremely corrupt police force.  Their rights of execution are very limited, and they virtually act under the shadows of the Nigerian police force.
How they operate is, if they catch a criminal, they have to take the criminal to the police to be detained. As expected, The same criminal will bribe his way out and continue to wreak havoc in Aba.

I am talking of the "Bakassi boys" as we knew them. The ones that were once feared by criminals. The ones that fought crime to a standstill.

Anarchy requires some measure of "Jungle justice" to be curtailed.

Justcash:


O yes, that will make it easier to identify unrepentant Kidnappers. They will be well grounded in the Kidnapping act and will be very effective, since they know the Modus operandi of Kidnappers.
Developed countries use hardened criminals to arrest unrepentant hardened criminals. There are some crimes that cannot be fought by people that have not tasted crime.

ziddy:


You're talking RUBBISH

Take a deep breath & read what you typed all over again 

Justcash:


I normally don't reply people like you that think unintelligently. However, I feel that I need to let you know the fact that it is indeed a smart move to keep your enemies close to you. It is the only way you can control them.
I don't mean to deviate, but It was your type of unintelligent thinking that the Gowon led government had when they left the potentials abound in the Biafran army unharnessed after Biafra surrendered at the end of the civil war. Even the Americans used arrested German engineers to attain some technological advancement.
Why don't you make a pastor or Imam the I.G, and watch criminals dance to your doorstep with AK 47 rifles.
Ask yourself why the Bakassi boys are so effective!

ziddy:

Ha! you're the one thinking unintelligently. Is the I.G of police a known/confirmed criminal? Aren't background checks carried out before police recruitment? Aren't you automatically disqualified from such recruitment process if you're found to have a criminal record?

Your thinking process is definitely muddled up

Yes policemen are corrupt and they invariably commit crimes in the line of duty, that is not to say that criminals are recruited into the police force as a matter of policy. Anyone can become a policeman or a pastor, it's the training that makes all the difference.

idupaul:

I for one thinks its the creation of bakassi boys years ago that has manifested to this level . Dnt u know its ex bakasi boys that are perptrating all this kidnaps after all the were working for the govt and have scene policing loop holes first hand and are nw using it to their advantage. What aba needs is a brutal police force .

udezue:

I'm with JASTCASH.

Ziddy, just tap out.

Onlytruth:

I can't believe that someone recommends a "brutal police force" for any part of Nigeria.
Sad indeed.

Personally, I think the solution is STATE POLICE.

I have said this countless times. We have a constitution and statutory codes. All that we need are ENFORCERS of those laws.

All those who say that Governors will abuse them are just dumb. So, you prefer kidnappers and thieves abusing you than a probable governor abuse? The governor is one man/woman. Kidnappers and robbers are legion -thousands. Moreover the governors are answerable to a federal constitution and federal police (SSS). They can be arrested if they abuse the law. So, folks should get real.

We need STATE POLICE!

ziddy:

^^

This is flawed logic! How would state police work better in this case?

Shebi they would answer to the Governor, the Governor in this case has chosen to pretend as if nothing is happening in his state. He is complicit! Imagine how far he would have gone with a private army of 'state policemen' at his disposal.

Civil society needs to speak up & force Govt. to do the right thing, instead of cowering in their yards or fleeing the city. We need to continue to speak up as a group anytime we are afflicted. That's the only way to change the current scheme of things!

Onlytruth:


Like I said before, we still have a federal police -the SSS. My recommendation is to scrap the current Nigerian police. Upgrade and equip the SSS to replace them. The SSS will still remain a "secret police", but they will be empowered to step in and arrest any state governor that abuses the use of the state police (who will not be more armed than the SSS).

ziddy:

How would you determine when the state police are being abused by the governor? who would even know or have evidence of such abuse? Believe me some Governors are still getting positive results out of the 'Federal' police as we have it (Lagos State is a case in point) while others are getting interactively negative results (Ikedi Ohakim, anyone).

State policing as you've outlined it might as well be the end of the entity called Nigeria  because it will lead to a lot of mayhem & bloodshed. To suborn even the SSS or the police, as a Governor all you need is to be in the good books of Abuja. And you spend money for them. Anything you want they will do for you! The problem as I see it is just a general unwillingness to enforce the law, on the part of our institutions.

We cannot handle state police yet, not with our fu.cked up legal system & corrupt public officials. We cant.

ayusman16:

and who do you think will be recruited if not the same Kidnappers?

tarano:

I have a radical option why don't we [s]privatize the police force, and hire corporate/security law enforcers, like the Executive outcomes, Defense Systems Limited,[/s] there are lots of them that can downsize and do some policing for us, or show us how to police,

Wallai if I'm a Governor, I will hire those firms, at least that will guarantee business people, investors, the local people of the security of their lives and property,

Nigerians need to know that security is very important for national development, If as a Nigerian I am scared of traveling to a state so that i do not get kidnapped, then Nigerians need a rethink of priorities,

closer, an uncle of a friend just got killed in Nigeria after spending over 15years in Canada, was killed in Nigeria after 1 month in Nigeria,

I am scared of traveling to the east, right now,

~Bluetooth:

You don't privatize a sector like security which is exclusively a function of government and a show of federal power.it's more or less asking for nigeria to be privatized.