Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
A former Inspector General of Police, AIG Ambrose Aisabor (rtd), has tasked the federal government to end killings in the country by bringing the perpetrators of Plateau state killing to book.
He said this in a telephone interview with our reporter in Benin in reaction to the killing of 150 persons in three local government areas of Mangu, Barkin Ladi and Bokkos respectively
He said that the killings and other crimes are festering in the country as a result of no political will to tackle the problems headlong by governments at all level.
“The Christmas day carnage in Plateau state is not the first but the casualty figures in the massacre is mind boggling. This may not be the last attack unless there is political will to stop killing and banditry in the country”, Aisabor said.
He said previous panels set up after previous attacks have been swept under the carpet hence many people are not surprised about the recent killing of more than 150 people in one night .
Aisabor added that this Plateau killing has again shown the level of helplessness of our security forces, who he said are “always caught unprepared”.
The former AIG who blamed the development on lack of intelligence report, charged the security agents to be proactive instead of reactive.
“Intelligence is the bane of our security operations; and there is no credible intelligence to act on. They are always reactive instead of being proactive and the perpetrators knew very well that the security agencies were on Christmas mood, so, they decided to hit their target,” Aisabor said.
Aisabor said any security arrangement to checkmate these criminals without emphasis on credible intelligence and synergy among security agencies would be a futile exercise and would be difficult war against criminality in the country.
He however decried that since the president has given the marching orders to the security agencies to bring the culprits to book, they will start to arrest innocent people to give the impression that they are working very hard.