Members
of the Nigerian Police and the Federal Capital Development Authority have come
under growing attack for their unprecedented ineptitude and drawback to modem
realities.
Speaking
at a fora in Abuja, the Secretary-General of the Disciples of Democracy and
Good Governance condemned the security personnel’s, mostly at night, for frustrating motorists at their ubiquitous
check points causing long queues.
Oftentimes, as has been observed, the unbearable delays which stretches
for hours amounts to nothing as the gun-weilding security personnels merely
smiles at you – or solicit for favours.
“My father, a retired police officer did this in the 70’s. I am surprised our policemen cannot rise
beyond crude check points and physical checking of particulars”, said
Christopher Ogboluabi. “People are tired
and want to get home, they are trapped in checkpoints; why can’t they, the
police change tactics?” he questioned.
But
another Nigerian, Mr. Tunde Agboola lashed out at the top officials for making
Nigeria look like a banana republic. “I
am amazed here, we have a situation where there is no light; then now, no road
freedom. You get exhausted through
delays and frustration at police checkpoints and finally, blackout awaits you
at home”! Cried Mr. Agboola.
He
urged the police to be mindful of this archaic strategy and called on the
hierarchy to change. “It’s not every day
they mount checkpoints”, he stressed.
“That’s a lazy way of policing crime”, he warned.
On
their part, the FCDA officials were asked to wake up from their slumber and go
out and repair badly dilapidated roads.
“It is shameful that no road is good in FCT. Very shameful”, declared one Alhaji Ibrahim
Biu. “FCDA officials can’t even patch
potholes; they come to office and literally sleep off only to collect their
salary month end”, he intoned. “We have
to be accountable to ourselves. We can’t
continue this way. They must repair our
roads”, he charged. For many years running, the short route between Gudu and
Lokogoma, Gaduwa and Lokogma Apo Dutse and Lokogoma has remained comatose.
Nobody has thought it fit to work on the road that would have made simplified the
burgeoning population in that axis. But at last there is no reprieve because
FCDA officials are as sleep.
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