Elder statesman, Chief Deji Fasuan, has urged the Inspector General of Police (IG), Muhammed Abubakar, to be fair in the treatment of men of the force who were alleged to have committed extra-judicial killings across the country.
Fasuan spoke in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, in reaction to the spate of unresolved killings in the state and elsewhere in the country, insisting that the IG must deal with culprits who he referred to as “bad eggs in the force” with “every sense of discipline, forthrightness, and justice for which he is known.”
Fasuan added, “Police officers who perpetrate this heinous acts should be apprehended and dealt with according to the law. Such people should not be protected under any guise. In recent times, the police have been doing a good job in the sense that their men who kill wantonly are made to face the law but there are still cases even in Ekiti here where offenders are shielded from the law. And this is wrong.”
The former Federal Commissioner of the Revenue Commission, who noted that the IG had “done commendably well since he assumed office,” added, “his performance going by the recurring experiences of accidental discharges and consequent killings of innocent people in the country still leaves much to be desired.”
Chief Fasuan, however, explained that the judiciary must share in the the blame, noting, “If there are such cases that go on unresolved, you cannot lay the entire blame on the police alone. Lawyers at the bar and the bench also play a part in this.”
