The assassination of Alex Badeh, insecurity and the privatisation of the police (2)

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By Rotimi Fasan

FAMOUS or infamous as the Chibok and Dapchi school girls’ abduction cases have been, the Nigerian government is still in the game of spinning stories about what is going on. The government has not been able to do what it has severally promised: secure freedom for all the girls. Neither have their parents, families and friends been allowed closure after these many years of endless promises and chest-thumping about beating Boko Haram at its own game.

Alex Badeh
Late. Alex Badeh

Police vow to hunt down killers of five villagers in Plateau

Would the many cases of abduction have remained unresolved had the victims been children, relations and associates of this country’s rulers?

How many Nigerians have access to the kind of security- financial, health and systemic- that is the exclusive privilege of the few with the means and ways to them? The few here being those occupying or have occupied positions of influence or authority in any tier of our three-tier political system….



Source: Vanguard Newspaper