Police have never treated Nigerians as brothers — Sowore tackles police for seeking public collaboration
Omoyele Sowore
Police have never treated Nigerians as brothers — Sowore tackles police for seeking public collaboration
Abdullateef Fowewe
The Nigerian human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has tackled the statement by the Police Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, seeking collaboration between Nigerians for better policing.
Adejobi on Thursday in a statement said there are no strangers or foreigners in the police and expressed that the police force belongs to every Nigerian.
Reacting to Adejobi’s statement, Sowore in a post on Thursday disclosed that the Nigerian Police Force always treated Nigerians like commodities to be scrapped.
Sowore emphasised that the Nigerian Police have sacrificed a lot of innocent Nigerians just to please the powerful individuals.
He said in the post, “The Nigerian Police have never treated Nigerians as their brothers and sisters; never; Nigerians are always treated like commodities to be discarded and destroyed at the slightest provocation or no provocation at all.
“You have sacrificed innocent Nigerians just to please the powerful and connected or even nonentities – men and women- who could pay you to do evil against our people.
“Many are languishing in jail today because the police opted to frame them up for a fee, many are disabled because you shot at them at close range because you wanted to prove they committed crimes they didn’t commit, and many were killed because they refused to bribe your men/ women at illegal checkpoints. How do you turn around and claim we are brothers and sisters when all we see and hear is the pain, anguish, destruction and death you visit on compatriots? #RevolutionNow.”
Dailyeconomy has reported earlier that FPRO, Adejobi while seeking the collaboration of Nigerians said the police are your brothers, sisters, uncles, nieces, nephews, wives, husbands, relations, and part of society.
