₦airaland Forum

MICHEALADEX:
He’s not as stupid as a some of you who believed that buhari was dead and replaced or that Tinubu was gonna be arrested before swearing in

Tochitee:
Conqueror of obi and his micreant!

The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed allegations made by Amnesty International in its report titled “Bloody August: Nigeria Government’s Violent Crackdown on #EndBadGovernance Protests,” describing the claims as false, misleading, and damaging to the image of the Force.

The report, released on November 28, 2024, accused the police of extrajudicial killings during the August 1-10 #hunger protests, claiming that at least 24 people were killed in six northern states.

However, the police have refuted these claims, asserting that their findings contradict Amnesty International’s allegations.

Addressing a press briefing on the matter on Sunday, the Force spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, said a special investigative panel was constituted to verify the claims.


He added that the panel, in collaboration with Commissioners of Police from the affected states, conducted extensive investigations and compiled a comprehensive report detailing the inaccuracies in Amnesty International’s allegations.

“Amnesty International is advised to have retrospection on its frequently false reporting on Nigerian’s Law Enforcement activities and reflect on its reporting methodology by ensuring that its reports are accurate and contain a true and fair expression of events that touch on national security and safety of all Nigerians. Accurate reporting of facts is key to the integrity and character of every international organisation and Amnesty International should not be an exception,” Adejobi added.

He also said the police would write to demand a retraction of the report as well as a public apology for the alleged inaccuracies.

Adejobi said, “The Nigeria Police Force will in due time be writing the Amnesty International to demand a retraction of this report from the public space and with a public apology. The Nigeria Police Force remains resolute in protecting the rights of all citizens while ensuring the security and stability of the nation. We, therefore, urge the public to be wary of sensational reports designed to incite mistrust and weaken confidence in law enforcement institutions.”

Reeling out the police findings in Borno, Adejobi said the police didn’t use grenades as claimed by the organisation.

He said, “In Borno State, it was established that the protesters were violent, engaging in widespread looting, pillaging, and wanton destruction of public and private property. For example, the Skill Acquisition Centre of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees was looted and vandalised. The warehouse of the World Food Programme, located on Baga/Maimalari Barracks Road, Maiduguri, was also looted, with several items belonging to the international organisation destroyed and stolen by some of the protesters.

“Therefore, the claims by Amnesty International that the police threw a hand grenade from a convoy of vehicles into a filling station, killing three persons is a blatant falsehood and leaves right-thinking members of the society dismayed at this reported falsehood by an international agency which ought to act in accordance with international norms and standard of fair and honest reporting of human rights violations in the country.”

In Niger State, Adejobi said the claim that three individuals were shot dead in Suleja was debunked in the police findings.

Adejobi said the alleged killing of a 21-year-old in Katsina was also found to be unsubstantiated, adding that local sources confirmed that no such incident occurred.

Also in Kaduna State, Adejobi said contrary to Amnesty International’s report, no protests occurred in Kaduna on October 1, 2024, and no police killings were recorded.


He said instead, an incident involving the Nigerian Army was identified and openly investigated.

Adejobi said Amnesty International reported the deaths of two women and a man during protests in Jigawa but the police investigations revealed no such killings, and evidence suggested that the lone fatality was caused by protester violence, not police action.

In Kano State, Adejobi said the report alleged 12 deaths in Kano due to police actions, stating that investigations indicated that these deaths resulted from violent confrontations involving looters and criminals, not police activity

Kukutente23:
You can't but admire Atiku's meticulous approach to opposition and criticism.

I suspect even Tinubu does not have this kind of breakdown or analysis of the budget like the Turaki just gave us.

What he's saying in summary for those who might become jaded by the sheer technicality of his intervention is that the budget is fiscally imbalanced as debt takes the highest allocation as against the deceitful publicly claimed security.

He also calls attention to the VAT increase which will reduce demand and thus slow down growth. Most economies in the world are actually reducing VAT presently.

Lastly, he calls attention to the distorted nature of the deficit and recurrent expenditures which both show that the government is not cutting down on inefficiencies but is instead being exuberant about it.

I call on all zombies to respond in a fact based and logical manner instead of personal attacks, tantrums and tribal baiting they are known for.

helinues:
Just the beginning.

Missing senses must be located by force

omooba969:
We don't need his name, the shape of his head says it all.

Imagine how this dirty criminal would oppress his neighbours if he succeeded...just imagine! He would have planned to knack people's fiancé and cum inside sef...lol.

SadiqBabaSani:
Crook, you guys just wanted to empower Thinugbuuu Lebanes patrners

THE new National Bureau of Statistics report that Nigerians paid a whopping N2.23 trillion ransom to secure the release of their kidnapped relatives between May 2023 and April 2024 is proof that kidnappers and other violent non-state actors have found Nigeria a fertile ground to operate. This is alarming.

This a staggering sum. Among the 36 states, it is only the budget of Lagos that is double the sum. In the 2025 federal budget, health received an allocation of N2.4 trillion.

Since Mohammed Yusuf assembled the bloodthirsty Boko Haram group in 2002, neither his death in 2009 nor the internal dispute resulting in the breakaway of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province has tamed the terrorists’ lust for blood and wanton destruction of property.

In 2015, Transparency International estimated Boko Haram’s membership at 15,000. Other non-state actors like Ansaru and bandits have entered the fray, causing immense havoc.

Lakurawa, which was a wolf in sheep’s clothing for years among some communities in the North-West, showed its true colours.

In November when the insurgents killed 15 persons in a village in Kebbi State. They reign as judges, police, and tax collectors. They find Nigeria a good ground to proliferate.

Non-state actors have killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced millions, forced trillions of naira out of their victims, and razed countless properties.

Nigeria rates an alarming 8.7 points on the Global Terrorism Index, which measures the direct and indirect impact of terrorism, especially in lives lost, injuries, damaged properties, and psychological aftereffects. The index is calculated from zero (no terrorism impact) to 10 (highest terrorism impact). This shows that Nigeria’s terrorism impact is high. It needs to change.

An estimated 51.89 million crime incidents were recorded across the country over the 12 months, per the NBS Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey report, released on December 17.

The North-West recorded 14.4 million cases, the highest, followed by the North-Central with 8.88 million, and the South-East with 6.18 million.

Many homes were broken into and robbed but that pales in significance compared to the spread and depth of kidnapping for ransom that has spawned a stunning N2.23 trillion kidnap economy.

Nigerian households coughed up that huge sum to secure the release of their loved ones at a time when the country is reeling under harsh government policies.

The inflation rate is 34.60 per cent and food prices are beyond the reach of most Nigerians.

Sixty-five per cent of the affected families were forced to pay N2.23 trillion. The average ransom was N2.67 million. This is too much of a burden for a struggling populace.


It is difficult to ignore the growing kidnap economy. Some people render various services to the kidnappers, from arms to information, food, and water supply, to fuel and financial services. Without this ecosystem, the kidnappers will be out of business.

The self-styled Department of State Services should dismantle it. The country has not invested enough in the police. The officers remain poorly housed, miserably kitted, and woefully remunerated. The morale of the average police officer is low. This encourages them to resort to dishonest acts to survive. They could also do with more training and retraining.

Between 2020 and 2024, N9.17 trillion was allocated to seven security units. These are the Army, Air Force, Navy, police, Defence Headquarters, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and Ministry of Defence.

The NBS statistics show the alarming growth and atrocities of non-state actors and the huge financial burden they put on suffering Nigerians.

The government must do more to secure the citizens. A lot needs to change.

According to the NBS report, armed robbers and kidnappers attacked the rural dwellers more than they did their counterparts in towns and cities.

This is due to vast ungoverned spaces, especially in the North. There are too many communities without police or any government presence. There should be more government presence to thin down those ungoverned spaces.


The country is grossly underpoliced. There are about 370,000 police officers assigned to secure over 230 million Nigerians.

This is an invitation to disaster. It falls short of the UN recommendation of 1:450 (police-to-citizen ratio).

Worse, two-thirds of the officers are illegally attached to VIPs.

A former state governor once lamented that less than 30 police officials were securing his state capital. Criminals exploit these gaps.

In 2018, pirates sacked one police station serving 71 rural communities and took away the only rifle at the station.

Every Inspector-General of Police promises to withdraw police officials attached to VIPs and bring them back into regular policing duties upon assuming duties. It is lip service.

Rather, more are redeployed to guard all manner of VIPs, unionists and musicians who have practically privatised the police and taken them away from policing the communities.


The NBS report says only about 36.3 per cent of those robbed, and about the same percentage of relatives of those kidnapped reported the attacks to the police. This is not right but it is understandable.

Most Nigerians do not report crimes because they do not trust the police. They have more confidence in the vigilantes and accuse the police of demanding gratification and turning citizens’ reports against them.

Even when the police respond to crime reports, they do so late and pick up innocent people long after the criminals have disappeared. This should stop.

According to studies, if the police respond in less than five minutes of a crime, there is a 60 per cent probability of making a genuine arrest. When it exceeds five minutes, the chance of an arrest drops to about 20 per cent.

In the United States, the average police response time to 911 calls is five minutes. In Australia, it is between seven and eight minutes. This is also generally true of Europe. It is the reason crimes are solved faster in those places. The police must redress this to regain the people’s confidence. It helps in fighting crime.

The government must stop cattle herding forthwith. Many heinous crimes are committed by terrorists pretending to be cattle herders.

Arms influx into the country must be halted and culprits brought to justice. The porous borders must be tightened.

More community-based action should be explored with traditional rulers and local vigilantes playing prominent roles.

To complicate this, Nigeria is the sole federal state in the world with a centralised police architecture. This is unwise. The Bola Tinubu administration and the National Economic Council should swiftly implement state policing.

So, state police will help too, and people should be encouraged to report crimes and suspicious movements without being victimised.

Tinubu must probe allegations of collusion and sabotage within the security community. The system must be cleaned up.

How do bandits hold large territories, and move large sums of money around in a country with a registered subscriber identity module and national identification number, and they are not caught?

CCTV systems should be used to catch criminals as it is in developed societies. Kidnappers should not be allowed any tract of land to extort trillions of naira in ransom from Nigerians.

richeeyo:
He uses it before he became a president so rest

SeIim:
As the saying goes,

Some people will never buy from you, Even if you sale LongLife and Prosperity

favouritecandy:
This guy, give it to him

gbemishile:
Should he have borrowed ur daddy's car ni

LivingSage:
Only sore losers doesn't

bluefilm:
The competition is between who and who biko?

Securitynewsng:
This is not Good