• As hooligans target men, arms and ammo
Lawrence Enyoghasu
A day or two prior, a video moving on a few WhatsApp stages, and said to be from Ughelli Area Command, A-Division, Delta State, gave some cops and men running and singing solidarity tune simultaneously. Immediately, a voice-over broke in, on the tape that had since turned into a web sensation.
"The police are dissenting," it reported. "Stop the executing of police. Quit consuming police headquarters. You have murdered our kin enough. The police are people. We are worn out. We are prepared to slaughter those hooligans now. They are attempting to consume the station yet we will overwhelm them and send them back. We will slaughter them. We will sit tight for them. Truly. That's the last straw. Quit murdering police. Quit consuming police headquarters."
Clearly, addressing his individual police officers, the voice requested: "Everyone proceed to ensure the dormitory there. They said they are coming. We are prepared to execute now. Allow them to come. Truly. We are at alert. We are sitting tight for them now. They said they are coming. We are ever prepared. The IG has provided us request. We are pausing."
Police select OPC individuals to ensure them, monitor stations
In Lagos where gangsters are said to have destroyed to the ground more than 17 police headquarters and supposedly murdered more than 50 cops and men, the story and situation are astoundingly extraordinary. No police officer is considering standing up to the criminals. None of them is considering sitting tight for them to come meet them at any of the rest of the police headquarters. None of them is prepared to do any request from anyone, IG or Police Commissioner, to execute or shoot without hesitation.
Or maybe, everything about security of lives and property of the cops and men have been sourced out to individuals from the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), the Yoruba socio-social cum security association established in August 1994 by Dr. Frederick Fasehun, after the abrogation of the June 1993 races, and the 1994 capture of Moshood Abiola, victor of that political decision, to secure and advance the interests of the Yoruba public.
A senior official who was among those that were injured during the assault by hooligans at Ajao Estate Division of the Nigeria Police Force, Lagos State Command, affirmed this reality when he revealed to Saturday Sun that they were vulnerable and had no way out than to recruit OPC men to secure them.
His report: "Unfortunately we are currently the objective. These were criminals and we were not allowed to take shots at them. We had no way out than to ask OPC to support us. Yet, this was after the punks trucked away our rifles."
In years passed by, the OPC had drawn a lot of help from the less instructed populace through its utilization of fantasies and fixations. For example, its individuals are supposed to be secured against gunfire through enchantment. They are supposed to be outfitted with charms accepted to forestall projectile, cutlass or blade wounds from entering the body. A cloth absorbed a creation, a little gourd with dark fine substance, local rings which have likewise been doused are accepted to forestall weapon wounds. Entry points are made on the collections of the individuals to keep hurt from happening to them in the midst of fight.
The senior cop who doesn't need his name on paper bemoaned that "it is typical that they will come clean with you the setback rate yet is that few police officers were butchered while the punks struck the police headquarters. Concealing the figure won't change the way that they are dead; rather they should tell the world that we were the genuine casualties during this dissent. We lost a few rifles. I can disclose to you that at least 100 police rifles are in the possession of hooligans at the present time." Some security specialists counseled by our columnist said that except if those rifles are recuperated and recouped exceptionally quick we may probably observe a spike in brutal violations over the state and the nation in the near future.
Incidentally, before, there was nothing but toxicity between the Nigeria Police Force and OPC, particularly after the Federal government prohibited the gathering in 1999 and asked the power to manage the association. Be that as it may, additional time, the connection between the two apparently sworn foes has come to defrost.
Police PRO affirms far and wide obliteration of police headquarters
Aside from Ajao Estate, other police headquarters which were torched in Lagos incorporate those of Idimu, Ikotun, Ojodu, Igando, Layeni, Denton, Ilenbe Hausa, Ajah, Amukoko, Ilasa, Cele Outpost under Ijesha and the disbanded SARS workplaces under Ajegunle, Ebute-Ero, Mushin (Olosan), Ojo, and Ajegunle. Police vehicles were likewise wrecked and set burning during the assaults.
Affirming this yesterday in a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Lagos, the police representative in the state, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, cautioned that the consuming of the stations could prompt the breakdown of peace and misuse of cash on the remaking of the obliterated police offices and frameworks with monies implied for different activities in the state.
"The ramifications of this is that cash that has been put aside to do different ventures and build up specific zones should be diverted into fixing these harmed stations." He said that more than 17 police developments over the state have been absolutely or halfway bulldozed by fire brought about by punks. "Additionally, it will make our work harder now since we should upgrade our watches so as to cover more grassroots regions that are typically secured by the consumed stations previously. I question if a portion of the grassroots stations will actually work at full limit once more, thinking about the harmed vehicles and PC gear that have been lost."
Adejobi educated that few reports arriving at the order claimed that criminals are assaulting different neighborhoods unabated because of the breakdown of lawfulness. Prior NAN announced that last Wednesday, the criminals exploited the liquid security circumstance to plunder shops at Karonwi Avenue, Itire, Surulere. As per NAN, the plundering which began about 8.30 pm and endured till 12 PM saw a few shops and houses broken into, while merchandise worth large number of naira were plundered.
The police representative who weeped over police powerlessness despite inescapable obliteration of police headquarters that what the order would have done under typical situation, on accepting such objections, would have been to coordinate the police headquarters closest to the region to suppress whatever vicious power that was compromising the tranquility of the occupants. Be that as it may, presently, he included, "the police have endured a great deal of harm and accordingly, can't rapidly re-uphold officials to such regions of distress in light of the fact that our vehicles and apparatuses of activities have been wrecked."
Low assurance among cops and men
Adejobi likewise communicated a few concerns over the decreasing confidence among cops and men over the state as a result of the mental impacts of watching their wellspring of pay go down the channel. "Each part of the economy has been required to be postponed, and a great deal of fixes and making up for lost time should be done whenever regularity is reestablished," he said.
Affirming the Police PRO's dread, another senior cop who talked with Saturday Sun, deplored the mental impacts occasioned by the assaults and killings. "In the event that you go to a few police social stages, you will perceive how tragic they are," he said. "Everybody is reviling the IG (Inspector General). For what reason wouldn't he be able to secure his kin? They sent enemy of uproar group to states. I can reveal to you that the young men are not ready to battle. Have you heard any outcome since the declaration? You removed weapons from the individuals that can battle these criminals and you didn't send anybody to supplant them? This can just happen in light of the fact that the IG is a managerial individual. He burned through the vast majority of his vocation years in the managerial segment of the police. By what means can an IG watch gangsters butcher his young men and he is trusting that Buhari will implore him to shield his kin? Throughout the entire existence of Nigerian police, we have not been this dampened."
Another senior official whose station was torched in Edo State disclosed to Saturday Sun how he barely got away from death. He stated: "Wherever was at that point strained and I was called to the order to give circumstance report when the hooligans assaulted. Four of my men were executed and all the rifles and guns found at the station were trucked away. The three different stations had a similar encounter; just in a day we lost up to six cops in Edo. Nobody is discussing it except for the figure is a lot. I express gratitude toward God that they didn't meet me there; perhaps my significant other would have been transformed into a widow. The significant test is the means by which and where to fish out those detainees that got away. A few affirmed crooks were in the jail and they don't have any affirmed house address. We are as yet undependable in light of the fact that they will frequent us down."
How I barely got away from death – Police assessor
Appreciative to God for saving his life, an overseer connected to the Orile Iganmu Police Division, Lagos, said he missed passing by a hair. His declaration: "In under five minutes after I ventured out to purchase food, they assaulted. It was appalling. I ran for my dear life and was requiring a reinforcement. In any case, nobody came till it was late. We know that these killings wherever were finished by criminals, not dissenters. We have lost numerous men and officials and the IG is never helping to support the confidence of his men. I can envision that if the gangsters had assaulted and slaughtered two troopers, hellfire would have been let free. They would have fished them out and butchered them and nothing would occur. Nobody minds that we are enduring; the IG wouldn't effectively support his young men. Greater part of our young men are still in medical clinic fighting for their lives. Have you heard or perused anything about a lead representative or even the CP visiting them? They couldn't care less and I should reveal to you that at this stage in my vocation
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