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Original Post Date: 2011-07-22 Time: 18:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Zacheaus Somorin and Amaka Eze
The reprieve Thursday, however, came on a day the Afenifere Renewal Group said it would not support violence and shedding of blood since it threatened the unity of the nation.
Speaking at a press conference in Lagos Thursday, the Principal Counsel of the chamber, Mr. Debo Adeleke, accused the federal government and the police authorities of being unfair to the officers, who risked their lives to protect citizens who were under siege by the sect.
Adeleke noted that it was the treatment meted out to the accused officers that informed the law firm’s decision to represent the officers at the law court.
He explained further that the arraignment of the officers in the first instance was inhuman, insensitive and very callous.
He recalled that: “Recently, some police men were arraigned before a court of law over the killing of the late Boko Haram leader. I want to use this opportunity to announce that this chamber is ready to offer free legal services to the officers because as far as we are concerned, the arraignment in itself is inhuman, insensitive and callous. It shows the insincerity of the government.”
It would be recalled that five officers namely Assistant Commissioner of Police, John G Abang, Assistant Commissioner of Police, M. A Akeera, Chief Superintendent of Police, Mohammed Ahmadu, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mada Buba and Sergeant Adamu Gado were arraigned at the Federal High Court, Abuja by the federal government on a two-count charge of extra-judicial killing and terrorism, which took place on July 30, 2009 in Maiduguri, Borno State.
He took a swipe on the government for attempting to negotiate with the members of the sect in spite of the fact that the European Union, the American government and even the Nigerian Bar Association, have discouraged such move.
Adeleke added that it is suicidal to negotiate with them. He was of the opinion that they should be promoted as national heroes and not to be prosecuted.
“They should be honoured by the police hierarchy. They did not send themselves to the war torn communities in the North. They were deployed there officially and legally to protect the citizens which they did excellently by their superiors. In the process, some policemen lost their lives, others were maimed.
Some of them are going through the agony of slow death, but the government was not showing any concern about that. For going there to quell the riot, they should be given national awards and not to be rubbished as criminals,” Adeleke posited.
Meanwhile, Afenifere Renewal Group in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kunle Famoriyo, said it was time Nigerians reviewed the activities of Boko Haram, especially as it affects power devolution to each ethnic region in the country.
The statement added that by so doing, the frequent skirmishes arising from ethnic clashes would have been addressed.
According to the statement, “our leaders should stop playing ostrich because of what they and their families are gaining from the lucre accruable from Nigeria as it is.
“The issue of devolution of power should be a legislative agenda now at the state and the National level. People want to be identified with what they know and feel at their regional and local level not what is in, and from Abuja.
“Boko Haram is a problem that has come from the various problems Nigeria has rooted itself into, and except the main issues especially poverty and unemployment is taken care of, Boko Haram problem will remain.
“Boko Haram is about all that had failed in Nigeria, unemployment, class discrimination, inequitable distribution of wealth, where public office holders amass billions and citizens starve for lack of food, injustice in which billionaire thieves walk away, while petty one rot in jail.
Boko Haram is about all of us, and therefore requires firm political decisions and solution to avoid the nation’s breakdown,” the statement said.
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Original date published: 22 July 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201107221197.html?viewall=1