The Connected Development (CODE) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the Nigeria Police Force is awake to its fundamental obligation of securing the lives and property of its citizenry.
This followed the disbandment of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) of the Nigerian Police Force.
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The Communications Director of the organisation, Kevwe Oghide, said on Monday in a statement that actions to combat kidnapping, banditry, Boko Haram insurgency and other forms of insecurity have been inconsequential compared to the magnitude of attacks and chaos in their wake.
“With corruption entrenched in the sector, sustaining an effective and efficient security policy continues to be a far-cry. The challenges threatening the sovereignty of the country are enormous; now is not the time for President Muhammadu Buhari to be verbose.
“Youths are being hunted and killed unjustly; families are displaced; livelihoods are destroyed, human rights are violated. The President and his top officials have continued to thwart public faith in this administration’s ability to protect the people. Nigerians deserve stability, security and an improved quality of life.
“It is no news that the security sector is highly politicised and has since become a tool of government coercion, with journalists and civil society members being unlawfully detained. The constitutional rights of the Nigerian citizen have consistently been infringed, disrespected and people now live in fear, depicting a total mockery of our democracy,” Oghide said.
She said that the Nigerian leadership must seize this opportunity to walk the talk and drive a much-needed security sector reform, as it is not enough to merely dissolve the unit of the Nigeria Police Force.
