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#EndSARS: Nigeria’s Information Minister Says Soldiers Were Professional, Criticizes Rights Organisations

November 19, 2020
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Despite several criticisms of how security agencies handled the #EndSARS protests, the Nigerian government has expressed satisfaction with the role played by the security agencies, especially the military, and the police, stating that “security agents were professional and measured in
their response.”

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed at a press conference in the nations’ capital Abuja said despite arresting hordes of looters during the violence in Lagos, the army treated them humanely and even counseled them before handing them over to the police.

“It is important to say that the Federal Government is very satisfied with the role played by the security agencies, especially the military, and the police, all through the EndSARS crisis.

“The security agents were professional and measured in their response, even when their lives were at stake, they exercised uncommon restraint. Their professionalism and measured response saved many lives and properties.

“The same cannot be said of those who unleashed mayhem on the security agents, killing and maiming them, sometimes in such a barbaric manner that is unprecedented in these parts. Six soldiers and 37 policemen were killed all over the country during the crisis. This is in addition to 196 policemen who were injured; 164 police vehicles that were destroyed and 134 police stations that were razed.” Mohammed said.

He said the federal government will no longer tolerate situations where her security agencies are harassed over their roles in the #EndSARS crisis.

“The Federal Government will not accept a situation in which some so-called human rights bodies and jaundiced media organizations will continue to harass the security agencies over their roles during the crisis.

“Soldiers, policemen and other security agents deserve commendation, not condemnation, except, of course, their critics are saying they are not human beings and that their own rights do not matter.

“It is depressing and demoralizing to continue to vilify men and women in uniform, who themselves were victims of senseless violence unleashed by hoodlums.

“The role of the human rights organizations, in particular, became suspect after they simply ignored the brutal killing and maiming of security agents during the crisis, as well as the orgy of violence that left 57 civilians dead, 269 private/corporate facilities burnt/looted/vandalized, 243 government facilities burnt/vandalized and 81 government warehouses looted, and instead continued to dwell on the bodiless and bloodless ‘massacre’ at Lekki Toll Gate.

“They did not see anything wrong in the public and private properties that were burnt or looted, neither did they see anything wrong in the fact that some of the businesses that were looted belonged to struggling young men and women. All they could see in their biased view of the whole situation was a hoax massacre.” the Nigerian minister said.

By Abel Ejikem

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