Use The Energy Used Against Protesters For Fight Against Bandits Instead – Ajaero Tells Police

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has urged the Police Force and other security agencies in Nigeria to desist from killing protesters.

The NLC President argued that the security agencies should rather deploy the diligence into killing of bandits and other criminals in the country.

Ajaero made the submission while reacting to the reported killing of some #EndBadGovernance protesters across the country.

He also charged President Bola Tinubu to address the issues raised by the protesters.

Ajaero said: “With unconfirmed reports putting casualties at 40+ in two days of managing the EndHunger protest across the country, we have sufficient reasons (backed up by reports and video clips) to question the professionalism of our security personnel as this represents nothing but MASSACRE of citizens.

“Had the security personnel deployed the same thoughtless brutal precision against bandits or other criminals, our country would have been an eldorado. As the lead-agency in internal security management, the police bear the burden of this massacre.”

The NLC president specifically accused the Kaduna State Command of the Police of being the worst regards the killing of protesters.

Ajaero said the Kaduna State Police Command under its Commissioner, Audu Ali Dabigi, “Represents the worst case scenario in which one of the fleeing protesters was heard on camera desperately appealing to the deployed police personnel not to shoot until his voice was drowned by a hail of bullets with the resultant death of a protester on the spot and several injured.”

He, however, praised the Edo State Police Command under the leadership of Commissioner Funsho Adegboroye, but emphasized that life is sacred and should not be taken under any guise.

Ajaero added: “In the same breadth, Edo State Police Command under the personal command of COMPOL Funsho Adegboroye represents the best in crowd management as he could be heard interacting and cajoling the protesters and almost effortlessly bringing them under control.

“It might be convenient to argue that the two states do have different socio-cultural milieux, however, an incontestable truth common to both, and indeed, all the states is that human life is sacred and should never be taken.”