Anambra Guber Aspirant Onyemelukwe Cautions Police on Shoot-at-Sight Order, Mourns Late COAS, Others
- One of the PDP governorship aspirants in Anambra, Lady Chidi Onyemelukwe, has sent a crucial message to the federal government
- Onyemelukwe said the shoot-at-sight order by the police would only aggravate tension in the country
- According to her, the government must tackle the insecurity in Nigeria without any excuse
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A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in the 2021 Anambra election, Lady Chidi Onyemelukwe, has said that the police high command's shoot-at-sight order in Enugu falls short of international standards.
Legit.ng reports that the governorship hopeful said the police, must not, in a bid to restore normalcy, resort to high-handed and extra-judicial engagements, saying that it would only exacerbate the situation and further alienate the police from the public they serve.
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She argued further that armed confrontations cannot bring about the kind of progress the southeast needs at this time.
Onyemelukwe said:
“Nigeria has gone through this before. The essence of having the hindsight early days of Boko Haram offers is to better instruct today's policymakers on options that work and those that don't.
"There are several stressors and contributors to the problems at hand. Addressing them will require placing all the cards on the table. We can't simply shoot our way out of situations like this.”
She added that she was aware of prevailing challenges, unmet needs and related issues that need to be discussed, saying that the solutions cannot be realised by the force of arms and violence.
The PDP chieftain noted that she was conscious of the disconnect between the political elite and the masses, including disenfranchised and unemployed youths.
She stated:
“Should we continue to speak and act in manners that further deplete badly damaged trust, then the southeast could be in for a serious decline as the loss of confidence, resort-to-arms and self-help will only prove destructive.”
Onyemelukwe also expressed her condolences to the families of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and the other officers who lost their lives in the Friday, May 21, military aircraft crash.
She also mourned police, naval, military, vigilantes, and other citizens who lost their lives during repeated attacks on Police and other paramilitary formations in the southeast and south-south.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that the increasing and unthinkable attacks by bandits in Nigeria, especially in the north, forced Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue to make some pronouncements about the state of the nation.
It was reported that Governor Ortom wondered why the shoot-at-sight order of President Muhammadu Buhari on bandits carrying AK-47 should be contradicted by the minister of defence, Bashir Magashi.
Source: Legit.ng
