Senator Dino Melaye. Photo: Instagram
Senator Dino Melaye on Monday condemned the latest killing of greater than 100 individuals by suspected herdsmen in some communities in Plateau state.
The senator representing Kogi West referred to as on President Muhamnadu Buhari to exchange the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, over the killings.
Melaye mentioned in a assertion that regardless of the billions of Naira being invested in safety yearly, Nigerians had been nonetheless being killed on every day foundation with none arrest of the culprits.
The assertion reads partially, “How does one clarify this ceaseless and wanton destruction of human lives with out the culprits being apprehended and punished.
“With all of the apparatuses out there for surveillance and crime detection in at the moment’s civilisation?
“How lengthy is that this senseless butchering of our compatriots to be tolerated with the one reprieve we get being excuses and palliative?
“How can we anticipate the worldwide neighborhood to take us critically once we complain about our residents not being handled pretty outdoors the shores of Nigeria, once we ourselves give proof every day that we worth our residents’ lives lower than that of animals.
“Human life is amongst the best of God’s present and the essence of civilisation is to make sure its safety and preservation to allow it attain to its full potentials. “Consequently, any taking of human life, with out the due strategy of legislation, is repugt and abhorrent to society and shouldn't be tolerated.
“As a matter of truth, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria makes it abundantly clear that the only purpose for the existence of presidency is the safety and welfare of residents.
“It, nevertheless, appears our Security Chiefs, regardless of a number of calls and admonitions to them to forestall additional lack of Nigerian lives, are detached to our residents well-being, however are quite engrossed with and appear to derive satisfaction from the bullying and harassment of any dissenting voice to residents unfriendly insurance policies of the Executive.
“It has develop into crucial to attract the eye of our safety chiefs to the truth that the continued unabated butchering of Nigerians with out the apprehension and trial of the culprits, regardless of the provision of contemporary units for data gathering, reconnaissance and detection, leaves one with simply considered one of two inferences: that our safety chiefs are incompetent or that they're complicit on this grotesque killings of harmless Nigerians, whom paradoxically, are underneath a obligation to guard.
“Whichever of these positions might be the case, it is high time every person of reason demanded that these ‘insecurity chiefs’ either become alive to their duties or be relieved from their posts forthwith,” it added.