The extra the Inspector General (IG) of Police, Tunji Disu tries to sanitise the Nigeria Police Force, the extra the unscrupulous components in the drive attempt to frustrate his efforts.
How on earth can a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and his males enable a secret cult group to renovate a police station?
This is what Nigerians witnessed lately when information broke that the members of a secret cult group renovated a police station at the Abuloma Okuro Junction in Rivers State.
It was gathered that the cultists reportedly unveiled the renovated police station throughout a ceremony attended by some cops.
During the ceremony, leaders of the cult teams, dressed of their colors, had been seen in a viral video inspecting the accomplished job and the new furnishings they put in.
Though the DPO and another serving officers have since been suspended, the audacity of the cult group in popping out brazenly to sponsor the renovation with none arrest by the police reveals how deeply compromised the police have change into.
It reveals how the Force has irredeemably compromised their integrity, self-discipline {and professional} requirements. It additional confers legitimacy, recognition or acceptance on suspected cult teams or different illegal organisations. That the identical police that all the time advise the folks to reject cultism, to permit that is unbelievable.
Police amenities are public establishments established for the safety of residents and the enforcement of legislation and should not change into platforms by means of which legal teams search public validation or affect.
No matter how it’s considered, permitting cultism inside safety establishments is completely condemnable.
The police as an establishment is that the widespread man’s final hope in the battle towards crime and must not ever be infiltrated or compromised by cult teams. If cultists renovate or construct police stations, will the police nonetheless arrest them? What braveness would they should arrest them?
While it’s a welcome growth for authentic neighborhood assist for enhancing police amenities, it’s definitely not for an outlawed group to supply such a assist.
The police authorities should sanction DPO and likewise determine and sanction cops who’re members of the cult group earlier than Nigerians get up sooner or later and listen to that armed robbers or bandits have renovated one other police station.
