ALUU: SAVE YOUR FAILY-TALE MR. INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE!!!

Lately, I have let unfolding national issues pass without letting out the ink, choosing rather to react and most times mourn within myself, but I have been “coerced” out of hibernation by remarks made by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on behalf of the Police Force he heads with regards to the Aluu killings. I am grieved and equally sad this is the type of Police Force we rely on after 52 years of independence.

The other time I opined that it is unlikely those who find their ways to become Nigerian leaders use the Cerebrum to think, perhaps they use an acquired and modified but compromised segment of the brain. Is it not amazing how we make our cases-very unintelligently! Lying is no good, but ugly enough, they are equally not good at that. Let me briefly run you through some very unintelligent and poorly-thought about remarks by some of those championing the democratic cause of leadership in Nigeria;

-          When President Jonathan could not say ‘Amen’ to a fiery prayer session, his aides were swift to rise in his defense that there is a specific number of times a President can say ‘Amen’ during a prayer session. What a constitutional blasphemy!!!

-          When Mrs. Jonathan was obviously indisposed and incapacitated from performing her self-sent and (un)official duties, someone speaking for the Presidency had come out to say she was only resting. What a shame!

-          After Sanusi Lamido Sanusi realized the unpopularity of his “notorious” rebranding of the Nigerian currency, the next thing that his mind told him was to try to convince us of another gimmick he nicknamed ‘Coins-dispensing ATMs’. That perhaps was his way of answering just one (1) of the three (3) the N5, 000 Question I had asked him in the media…but he has remained unable to answer the question about what the options shall be for a Nigerian who intends to withdraw N20, 000 via the ATM and has to go home with 400 pieces of N50 coins. CBN Abracadabra!!!

-          Imagine Femi Fani-Kayode arguing that Obasanjo’s third term refusal is nemesis for Jonathan’s underperformance! That is a former Minister of the Federal Republic displaying ignorance and horrible followership!

-          I can’t understand former Governor Bukar when he said that Boko Haram could get aggrieved and start bombing again just because of the budgetary allocation to the North. If I were in-charge of the SSS, I would definitely invite him over for questioning and tell him to tell the nation what he knows about Boko Haram and Budget.

And suddenly, after the brutal murder of four young Nigerians by an obviously “cursed” land, the Inspector General of Police is coming out to tell Nigerians that his Policemen were there after an initial alert but were repelled by the mob that used stones to chased “armed” anti-robbery Policemen. This IGP still went ahead to say that the Policemen “ran” to reinforce only to return after the mob had killed and burnt the boys. What a fairly tale Mr. IGP! I guess you have taken 160 million Nigerians as having been blessed with modified Down syndrome, if not; you won’t face us and tell us this frivolous and mischievous story. To me, it is a rubbish pretext!

Mr. IGP, you claimed your men had gone to the scene having been alerted that some robbers had been apprehended! You claimed the mob used stones to chase your armed anti-riot police squad! Hahaha (bitter laugher)…so stones have been re-invented as weapons of war and have prevailed over guns?! It is so sour that the Police Force has become so “helpless” and vulnerable to that point. So, armed robbers and Boko Haram can now drop their guns and bombs and resort to the use of stones to square the Police into the round peg? Hmmm. Or, those were the exact stones that David used to kill Goliath?? Or, did you mean to say that your Policemen agreed with the villagers that jungle justice was the fair deal for the young men, and so gave them the room to perpetrate their nefarious act unhindered?

Mr. IGP, your tale is a fairy one and it holds no water. It is unbelievable and altogether sad. You and the Police you claim to lead should hold your heads in shame. If unarmed, or rather, stone-armed people can chase gun-lurking and bullet-proof armed anti-robbery Police squad when lives were at stake, then Nigerians are in trouble. Where are the rubber bullets used against adamant mobs/protesters? Where are the tear-gases used to disperse protesting crowds? Or, as it now become a crime to shoot into the air so as to frighten the mob and rescue the lives at stake?

Mr. IGP, your statement is leaky, and if I were the President, I would have you tender an unreserved apology for gross failure at duty post! You thought to vindicate the Police Force under you, but alas you succeeded in implicating your force. No wonder the likes of Zakari Biu could “assist” a “national criminal” in the person of Ali Sokoto to escape. Little wonder innocent serving corps members were gruesomely murdered while seeking refuge in a so-called Police Station. And it has become obvious why and how Boko Haram takes pleasure in attacking Police Station at will whenever they are in need of arms…it is simple; if stones can chase armed anti-robbery and anti-riot Policemen, how much more when the enemy is kitted with AK 47?

Mr. IGP, as someone I respect and even supported for confirmation, I expected you to have thought well and either kept mute or apologize for the role the Police played in failing to nip in the bud the mob action that has left many homes in perpetual loss and grief.

(www.drwilliamsbukola.blogspot.com)