We haven’t even got to the elections and the
instances are so many: bombs blowing up at
campaign grounds; people being stabbed and
shot; political offices being burnt and shot at;
convoys being vandalised, the list goes on.
There will always be political thugs and vandals;
since Abel, there have been bad human beings;
the problem is: Will Nigeria always have a
sleeping policing department? Why must we as a
people always guess who did what? Why must
the All Progressives Congress accuse the Peoples
Democratic Party and the PDP accuse the APC
with the violence continuing and the police and
Department of State Services never telling us
actually who did what?
When will the Nigeria Police under Suleiman
Abba and the DSS ever apprehend the
perpetrators of these crimes and bring them and
whatever party is involved to justice? Are we
condemned to continue living as primitive people
in Nigeria where mob action is permissible and
perpetrators must be guessed?
The Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Jelili
Adesiyan, warned in December that the police
were ready for “anyone who instigates violence.”
Are they really ready? Do they have the capacity
to be ready and impartially so? With Adesiyan
being one of those implicated at the alleged Ekiti
rigging meeting, one really may not have much
to expect and hope for under the current
dispensation.
Already, we have criminals and terrorists who
have actually openly promised to make Nigeria
ungovernable should their candidate lose in the
March elections and the police are snoring
loudly.
Frankly, Nigerians are tired but we cannot
despair. We will still urge our security agencies
to divert their rapid response from subduing the
brave hunters who turned the tide on Boko
Haram in the glorious Mubi recapture battle and
discourage them from murdering our innocents in
peaceful processions, as they did in Kaduna with
the Islamic movement; and beg them to convert
the professionalism they used to burn BRT buses
and newspapers to apprehending political thugs
and investigating into the cases of political
vandalism and violent disturbances that are
being conspicuously tolerated today in what
appears to be a prepared avenue to obstructing
fair elections and a true handover in May.
And if the police tell us they cannot secure us,
many of us including the men and women of the
Citizens United for Peace and Security and other
civil groups are more than ready to provide
responsible security for the nation and this
electoral process through Civilian Joint Task
forces. Which one are you, the police? Are you up
to the task? www.punchng.com/opinion/thuggery-and-nigerias-sleeping-police/

Civilian jtf ko, hunter jtf ni

The army is only been equipped. Wetin police go do?

With our democracy at stake due to the threat of non provision of security by military during election,shows the NPF has been relegated to common vigilante group..

The NPF is poorly funded to undertake any meaningful activity,or investigation.

The NPF is just a product of the society we found ourselves.

Nigerian thuggery had far over-powered the Police. In a very simple term they have NO regard for the men.

They only hear or understand the language of army.