By Okechukwu Nwanguma
These
same Nigeria police personnel who have proved very capable at harassing and
intimidating opposition and exploiting ordinary law abiding citizens have
proved grossly incompetent when it comes to professional police duties.
It is
the same federal government that deliberately denies them the funding,
training, equipment and motivation which they require to effectively discharge
their professional functions and operations that still uses them to do their
dirty jobs which are outside their constitutional and operational mandate.
This
week, a Federal High Court in Abuja was reported to have struck out a 2-count
terrorism charge against Aminu Ogwuche, the alleged mastermind of Nyanya
bombing in Abuja. Ogwuche was freed after months of trial for the April 2014
attack which killed more than 70 people. The Court struck out the charges due
to lack of diligent prosecution by the state.
This was after all the noise
accompanying Ogwuche’s arrest. The police failed in their primary duty to
effectively prosecute and secure the conviction of a suspected terrorist. It
would appear then that the police, unable to prevent crime, resort to
committing crime.
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