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Group knocks IGP for advising policemen to use force against public


The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has received knocks over his advice to men of the Nigeria Police Force to deploy force against members of the public when their lives are threatened.
A rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), in a statement signed by the Chairman, board of trustees of the group, Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi and four other members of the group, said that such orders showed that Nigeria police is ‘unchangeable and untrainable’.
Intersociety added, “By the written signals and circulars issued on 7th Nov, 2020 by Inspector General of the Nigeria Police Force, Alhaji Adamu Abubakar, to the Force’s principal officers, ordering them and their subordinates to use ‘lawful force’, henceforth, against Nigerians, “in defense of themselves, their personnel and properties,” it is now clear and unarguable that the present High Command and Officers of the Nigeria Police Force are unchangeable and ‘untrainable’.
The group said democratic free speeches and assemblies must remain the axiom of democracy and its process in the country and must also be strictly adhered to all the times. It said, as a key member of the UN System, Nigeria must abide by the dictates of international norms and laws including ten basic principles in policing and managing democratic free speeches and assemblies in a democratic republic.
The group added further that the IGP’s ‘use of force order’ is expected to lead to quadruple increase in cases of police extrajudicial violence against defenseless citizens especially the road users and those taken into police custody.
It said for a force that is known to have killed Nigerians who refused to offer them bribe on the highway, and taking into cognizance the ability of the men of the Nigeria Police Force to spin stories against innocent persons, the order will help them to kill and label anyone who refuses to bribe them, as coming against them.

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