Top human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has once again vented his frustration with the sorry state of the nation, especially concerning the spate of insecurity sweeping across different regions.

Below are the 7 salient points from Falana’s explosive interview on Channels television on Monday, May 09, 2016.



Inspector General of Police is incompetent: Femi Falana accused the IGP, Solomon Arase of incompetence on the handling of the Fulani herdsmen. He said it left much to be desired that the IGP had to wait for a presidential order before taking action after scores of local residents were killed in the recent Fulani herdsmen attack in Ukpabi Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani local government area of Enugu state.



The Police is understaffed: He also opined that the Nigeria Police lacked the capacity to effectively police 170million people with just 130,000 men.



162 police officers guarding a governor is too much: According to Falana, Nigeria “used to have 300 policemen guarding a Governor, now Police assigns about 162 officers to guard each State Governor”. For a police that is already understaffed, that figure is still too much.



Ex-commissioner of police, Enugu, Nwodibo Ekechukwu deserves some punishment: He said that the transfer of the ex-police boss in the state is not enough as the community had alerted the governor who then alerted the commissioner of police but failed to take actions. He further said that all heads of security agencies- commissioner of police, Director of state security service and Army commander in Enugu were guilty of security negligence and should be dealt with accordingly.



The Police constantly engages in extra judicial killings: Femi Falana alleged that the police was regularly engaged in outright killings of armed robbery and kidnap suspects after parading them to the media. He said, “What happens to armed robbery suspect and kidnap suspects after the parade? They are simply extra judicially executed. I go to court regularly; I cannot remember when last armed robberies were brought to court. In 2014, 532 armed robbery and kidnap suspect were paraded all over the country and I went to the police to get the court were these criminals were being arraigned but I got no response,” Falana said.



State governors should fight for State Police: Falana said it was high time the 36 state governors challenged the federal government over the centralized policing in Nigeria. “The FG has violated the constitution; what I mean is section 214 of the constitution provides that there shall be only one police force in our country that shall bear arms but over the years, all other paramilitary force carry arms. “There is no way you can police over 170 million Nigerians with one police force. The federal police will deal with federal offence, the state police will deal with state offence. Even local government can have police.



Chief of Army Staff, Buratai should mind his business: In a clear attack on the Chief of Army Staff, Falana said Nigerian army has no business with internal security unless in dire situations. He also said Buratai has no moral right to harass Nigerians and teach on how to protect lives and properties in Enugu after it allegedly killed and buried Shi’ites in Kaduna state last December.


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When some people talk , apart from the fact that you don't need a dictionary , you also know they are saying the truth

It's a good thing they are understaffed then. The extortion for no be here.

Falana spoke the absolute truth. The police were very complicit in the attack that took place in Enugu. The GOC of the 82 division must also be disciplined and probably court-marshaled for negligence of duty. It is high time people began to answer for their roles in the abominable attack. There is no better time for state police than now. The attack would have been averted if the Governor could give orders to the police commissioner. The fear of state police becoming a tool in the hands of governors should not stop us from trying it out. We can build necessary safeguards through our laws that will ensure that that does not happen.

Falana, like Oby is still pained because they were rejected as ministers. Continue

So Nigeria still have humans capable of saying truth? let's hope Efcc and Dss doesn't media parade falana for receiving alert.

Omoakinsuyi:
Falana, like Oby is still pained because they were rejected as ministers. Continue

I don't think you reason well.

Can you point out a single lie in all that he said?

We really need state policing at this time.. .

The problem is that most of our governor are trugs

Ok

Hi Landers would like to have a chat with anyone staying in Boston,Darthmouth or Lowell, MA or any part of Florida .

Even Americans inspite of the level they have attained still complain about their government let alone a third world country called Nigeria.
Nigeria hasn't yet started.

Omoakinsuyi:
Falana, like Oby is still pained because they were rejected as ministers. Continue

Just continue displaying ur brand of 'sense'...If u look well on this thread ur fellow zombie comrades-in-arms have acknowledged the bald truth as stated by Falana.

Useless Yoruba baboon who will also say half truths

Maybe when people lose the blind political party support, the truth will start coming out. It's not everything that should be politicised but if any government functionary comes out to address these issues now we'll start hearing of 16years of rot by PDP, oil price drama and all that BS!

Tell me d people wey dey d PDP before na, na still dem

Just passing...

I agree with the last point he made. it is only in developing countries, esp in Nigeria that the military practically live with civilians. they were trained to face war, protect the territory and not interfere with the affairs of the civilians. imagine using military for elections, bad practices.

Nigeria will get there someday


[size=40pt]The Major Problem we have in Nigeria started with Police and will surely ended with Police yes i mean it Police ....Olopa Aalaso dudu[/size]

Omoakinsuyi:
Falana, like Oby is still pained because they were rejected as ministers. Continue

Now truth has become pain....R.I.P logic.

land for sale

ibkgab001:
Nigeria will get there someday


[size=40pt]The Major Problem we have in Nigeria started with Police and will surely eneded with Police yes i mean it Police ....Olopa Aalso dudu[/size]

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Ex-commissioner of police, Enugu, Nwodibo Ekechukwu deserves some punishment: He said that the transfer of the ex-police boss in the state is not enough as the community had alerted the governor who then alerted the commissioner of police but failed to take actions. He further said that all heads of security agencies- commissioner of police, Director of state security service and Army commander in Enugu were guilty of security negligence and should be dealt with accordingly.

Is Nigeria ripe for state police, With the mentality of our governors?

We have to consider Nigerian fact when discussing policies.

Omoakinsuyi:
Falana, like Oby is still pained because they were rejected as ministers. Continue

MasterofNL:

I don't think you reason well.

Point out a single lie in all that he said?

The problem with Nigerians like @Omoakinsuyi is that their minds have been so abused by the crudity of the kind of politicians they revere, they do not believe anyone could just speak objective on national issues without having some political/ethnic/religious ulterior motives.

I cant agree more

Imagine if Tinubu has his police. Imagine if Wike had a state police too.

The danger of having state police is too great. Big politicians will use it to kill thier opponents and even start war with other states.

Please let's not dream of state police anymore

That's right.

State policing when some states can't even pay their present civil servants?

d real truth

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