I have watched with shock how what began as a peaceful #EndSARS protest has degenerated into a monster that is threatening the well-being of our society. Lives and limbs have been lost as criminals and miscreants are now hiding under the umbrella of these protests to unleash mayhem on our State.
As a government that is alive to its responsibility and has shown a commitment to the movement #ENDSARS, we will not watch and allow anarchy in our dear state.
I, therefore, hereby impose a 24-hour curfew on all parts of the State as from 4pm today, 20th October,2020.Nobody, except essential service providers and first responders must be found on the streets.
If you need a helping hand just call 01- 700-1755 and you’ll be sorted. This generation will change everything.
I have called to appreciate them. This digital generation is not lazy. They are technologically and scientifically driven. They are not lazy like Buhari generation that feed in oil.They have actually set up a parallel functional system- a welfarist system ,a communal system where religion ,ethnicity ,colour do not determine who leads or who gets contract or appointment ! Here ,love for humanity rules .This is the dawn of a new era where human dignity will be restored. Ndubuisi Anaenugwu
Open Letter To IGP: Scrapping SARS Is Nothing Short Of Bottling OldWine With New Bottle OPEN/PUBLIC INTEREST LETTER
Mohammed Abubakar Adamu
Inspector General of Police
The Nigeria Police Force Headquarters
Louis Edet House, Shehu Shagari Way
Central Area, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
Communication Mode:
Email & WhatsApp per DCP Frank Mba/IGP Adamu Abubakar
Dear IGP,
Re: Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.3/30: IGP Dissolves The Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS)
Scrapping SARS is Nothing Short Of Bottling Old Wine With New Bottle: How Best To Reform NPF & Its Units
(Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria, Monday, 12th Oct 2020): The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law is writing to totally reject the scrapping, yesterday, Sunday, 11th October, 2020 of the notorious and butchery Special Anti Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force and planned absorbing of its killer personnel into various units or departments of the Force. As organization with individual and corporate expertise in modern policing and legal matters, Intersociety sees the announcement by your public office as nothing short of ‘bottling old wine with new bottle’. There must be thorough plus ICT and mentally driven or sharpened reformation of the Nigeria Police Force and its relevant units or departments.
The reformation of the Nigeria Police Force and all its intelligence, operation, investigation, custodial and prosecution units or departments must be done holistically and comprehensively. That is to say that the reforms must particularly be centered on the following relevant or key units or departments of the NPF: anti-fraud section, special anti-robbery squad-State-SARS and F/SARS (“disbanded”), x-squad (in-service anti-corruption squad), general investigation, special fraud unit, legal section, forensic science laboratory, Interpol liaison, homicide, cybercrime section, anti-human trafficking, force intelligence department or FCIB/SCIB, special branch (criminal and special investigation bureau), Central Crime Registry, department of criminal investigations or FCID/SCID and its annexes in Kaduna, Lagos, Enugu and Gombe; counter terrorism section, anti kidnapping squad, police border, police highway, police mobile, police railway and police marine sections.
(a) The reforms must be operationalized as operational guidelines, code of conduct and training manuals or school curricula in the NPF’s top Departments of FCID/SCID, FCIB/SCIB, Information and Communications Technology, Research & Planning, Training & Development and Operations; headed by DIGs as well as related units or departments in the Force’s 17 Zonal Commands, 36 State Commands/FCT and Areas Commands, Divisional Commands and Training Commands, Squadrons and other related formations across the country. The training and operationalization must start with the heads of such units and departments including ‘in-service’ and ‘out-service’ trainings and orientations.
(b) There shall be scrapped with uttermost immediacy the following unnecessarily created and duplicated IGP’s “special intervention squads” such as “IGP’s intelligence response team” (IRT), “IGP’s special tactical squad” (STS), “IGP’s monitoring team” and related others. Apart from their sheer duplicity, they also seriously undermine the activities of the duly units or departments above mentioned.
(c) In your public office’s recent creation of five additional Zonal Commands, Awka was named as the headquarters of Zone 13, but ‘Ukpo-Dunukofia’ unceremoniously became its final location. We want it reversed and reverted to Awka.
(d) Resuscitate & Digitalize NPF Forensic Dept: there must be revitalization and digitalization of the NPF Forensic Department which must include criminalistics, pathology, toxicology, physical anthropology, odontology, psychiatry, questioned documents, ballistics, tool work comparison and serology, etc.
(e) There must be ICT policing revolution and impartation of logical analytical skills in the NPF and all its headship and operational or field personnel to curb the incessancy of torture and extrajudicial killings and others forms of crude and unprofessional policing. This must include ICT compliant guidelines for processing or handling of suspects arrested and investigated by the headship and operational or field personnel manning all the named NPF units or departments.
(f) Tackle & Abolish Endemic Corruption In The NPF: corruption to be tackled and abolished in the Force include commercialization of criminal investigation (i.e. custodial bail fees and funding by complainants, of criminal investigation including arrests and prosecutions), beat patrol and roadblock extortion and daily criminal returns made to senior police officers (i.e. from SARS/MOPOL commanders/DPOs-Area Commanders-CPs-AIGs-DIGs-IGP), diversion of overhead funds meant for police formations by the NPF Force Headquarters and State Commands and privatization of policing formations and officers’ promotions and postings. Police corruption also involves dabbling into and criminalization of civil matters, confiscation and forceful possession of monetary cash sums and properties belonging to suspects or “proceeds of crimes” and ritualism (by “disbanded” SARS personnel and their likes).
(g) Checkmate & End Operational & Custodial Killings: These must be done away with through digitalization of the NPF’s intelligence gathering, suspects’ arrests and detention, investigation and trial as well as abolition of trumped allegations and charges.
(h) Say No To ‘Holden Charge’, Archaic Laws & Practices: Citizens’ arrests, detention, investigation and trial must all times be in full compliance with the provisions of Sections 33, 34 and 35 (4) of the country’s 1999 Constitution and related others in the country’s int’l rights treaty laws. All forms of ‘Holden Charge’ or ‘Prosecutorial Vindictiveness’ and archaic jurisdictional practices must be abolished.
(i) There Must Be Specialization Of Trial Courts: There must be carried out urgently and legislatively or administratively in Nigeria the carving out of ‘Criminal High Courts’ and ‘Civil High Courts’. This is for purpose of ensuring speedy and ICT accelerated trial or fair justice dispensation.
(j) End Hate & Racial Policing: There must end to discriminatory, sectional, hate and racial policing in the country. Racial profiling must give way for plural or balanced, secular and meritorious policing.
Signed:
For: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law
Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chair, Chinwe Umeche, Esq., Head, Democracy & Good Governance, Obianuju Igboeli, Esq., Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law and Amaka Damaris Onuoha, Esq., Head, Campaign & Publicity
Federal Government Moves To Rediscover Lost Grazing Routes For Farmers/Herdsmen
The Federal Government will be working with state governments to rediscover the lost grazing routes and reserves across the country as part of measures to end farmers and herders ’ clashes .
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity , Garba Shehu , disclosed this on Friday in a statement titled “ President Buhari : Farmers will reap benefits of our policies .”
Shehu quoted the President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd . ), as speaking at a meeting with Katsina State Elders Forum at the Presidential Villa , Abuja on Thursday .
The statement read , “ The President told the meeting that he had charged his ministers of agriculture to work with the states to rediscover the lost animal grazing routes and reserves as a means to ending the frequent outbreaks of violence between farmers and herders.
“ He also pressed the necessity of educating school – age children , saying that once the opportunity of early education is lost , it often turns out very difficult for them to make up .
“ President Buhari also broached the issue of armed banditry and kidnapping that had bedevilled Katsina and other North Western states and gave assurances that the situation would be overcome in the same way the farmer – herders , attacks were subdued. ”
According to the statement , Buhari also said Nigerian farmers would reap the benefits of his government ’ s reforms as he continues to accord the highest priority to agriculture, describing it as the country ’ s largest employer of labour and engine of growth .
Source.social media
Note: This is Fulani program for conquest and in line with fulanization agenda. Open grazing is obsolete and should be done with. Modern society goes for ranching as a way of rearing animal .Say no to open grazing! End open grazing now
I must confess that I have been encouraged by your tenacity with the #EndSars campaign, nationally.
It’s only through action that words can have meaning.
I have always believed that the salvation of dis we country lies in the hands of some exceptional youths.
Understand that nobody gives you anything, certainly not these riffraffs and criminals ruling us. If you want smtin you take it, as a man.
No messiah will be coming to save you. Jesus is not coming anytime soon to fix Nigeria.
Prayers without action, na nonsense.
These Demons who want to die in power will never invite u to come and take over.
CharlyBoy at 70 smtin years old cannot come to lead able bodied young people whose blood should be boiling over. If u think I never try after over 40yrs being my authentic self na for ur pocket.
I will keep teaching, keep inspiring, I will keep giving u guys the ginger, but only u can save urself.
