By Okechukwu
Nwanguma
As
we approach the 2015 elections, and if they must hold, we see it as a point of duty to sound a note of
warning about the dangers inherent in the increasing intolerance and political
desperation which currently characterise political contestations.
These acts of intolerance and desperation are more manifest in the use of the police and
other security agencies as willing tools in the hands of the Presidency and key
members of the ruling party- PDP to
continuously harass, hound and intimidate political opposition and to stifle
basic freedoms guaranteed under Nigerian laws.
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| IGP. Abba |
Stretched beyond elections,
there is a clear and present danger to the survival of our hard-won democracy.
The
primary reasons that the police exist are to serve and protect the citizens
from whose taxes they are paid and maintained.
But recent activities of the
Nigerian police, and sometimes, the SSS- from Rivers, to Edo to Ekiti and now,
Abuja and then, Lagos, subvert the rule of law, undermine democracy and create
the enabling environment for chaos and social instability.
Mr. Okechukwu
Nwanguma is the
National
Coordinator of the Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria(NOPRIN)
To be continued
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