The Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, has commended the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, for the ban imposed on the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, and a range of other Tactical Squads of the Force.
The Forum, in a statement issued by its Chairman, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, commended the directive of the IGP which states that no personnel of the Force is authorized to embark on patrols or tactical assignments in mufti.
The Governors noted that the directive will significantly reduce the various infractions of the police that the ordinary Nigerian people have been complaining about and bring an end to the menace of SARS brutality on the people they are meant to protect.
The Governors said Adamu’s instructions could not have come at a better time when the majority of Nigerians are unhappy with these police officers who have routinely engaged in unlawful killings and torture, thereby giving the Force a bad name.
The statement further observed that young people should not be criminalized simply on account of how they look or their mode of dressing or the cars they drive, the type of phone they carry adding that this is an assault on their fundamental human rights.
Nigerian Governors called for appropriate sanctions against law enforcement officers that have been lawless and irresponsible in the exercise of their duties against ordinary Nigerians as the FSARS personnel have not to heed earlier caution by the police boss.