Senator Enyinaya Abaribe, representing Abia South, has condemned in strong terms, the killing of Aba-based business man, Emmanuel Okocha , by a trigger-happy police corporal at a police checkpoint in Aba.
The former Senate Minority Leader, urged the Inspector General of Police to rein in the officers involved and to ensure that similar incidents are not witnessed again in Abia. “These frequent killings by law enforcement officers is becoming alarming and worrisome. People now live in fears in their own country. Our people become more terrified of the police rather than being confident in the presence of them on the roads.
“This is worrisome and paints a foreboding picture of recklessness and irresponsibility by some officers of Nigerian security agencies”, he said. “Where law enforcement officers, tasked with upholding the law and safeguarding the lives and rights of all individuals, perpetuate reprehensible acts of violence and thuggery, becoming themselves, ‘power hungry uniformed-miscreants’, the society opens itself up to a portal for chaos, as continued disregard for the principles of natural justice and humanity, is a drive down a slippery slope.
Bishop Onuoha also decried the proliferation of security checkpoints in the South East geopolitical zone, and called for a review of the sad development.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
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