Frank Ikpefan, Abuja
A CIVIL Society Organisation (CSO) has appealed to officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to resume their respective duty posts in the interest of national security following the violence that trailed the #EndSARS protests across the country.
Some personnel of the Force had been reluctant to return to work, citing low morale in the wake of killings of their colleagues, burning and looting of some police stations by hoodlums who hijacked the protests in some states.
The group condemned the gruesome killing of these officers and other security agents during the protests in some states by hoodlums.
Coordinator, Southwest Development Frontiers, Osabinu Olufemi at a press conference in Abuja, praised the response of the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu, men of the Nigeria Police in quelling the crisis.
“We are not unaware of the extra-judicial activities and indiscriminate use of excessive force by men of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) which provoked a national outcry and snowballed into a national protest by youths. It was aimed at ensuring the disbandment of the unit that has become a law into itself in society.
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“We condemn in totality the killing of policemen, burning down of over 200 police stations across the country, carting away of their firearms, burning of Police vehicles & vandalism of facilities that provides employment opportunities for the erring unemployed youths who threw caution into the winds by going on the rampage.”
“Government should ensure a total reformation of the Police sector; begin the immediate renovation of their barracks, provision of better welfare package for them by the Inspector General of Police.”
He said the government must ensure that the various panels of inquiry set up by various states, be given access to investigate the root causes of what led to the unexpected violence that ought to have been prevented from snowballing out of proportion.
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