The Inspector General of Police’s proposal that protestors provide their personal information has drawn criticism from human rights activist Deji Adeyanju, who described it as a “complete failure of intelligence” in Nigeria. Adeyanju questioned the necessity to provide specifics in an interview with Arise News, claiming that all security agencies—including the Army and SSS—already had his information.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
Adeyanju, expressed frustration that security agencies claim to have intelligence on protests but fail to gather intel on banditry, terrorism, and kidnappings across the country. He described the government as “unreasonable” and unwilling to engage with citizens.
In his words;
“The IG has my detail, so why do I need to submit my details that he already has. Every security Agencies in Nigeria, SSS, Army, they have my details. I’m there regular customer. So why do I need to submit any details. It shows a complete failure of intelligence in the country. It’s even an indictment on the Security Agencies that they’re asking for details. So where is intelligence gathering.
“All of a sudden, they have Intel about the protest but all the Banditry activities in Zamfara, all the terrorism in the North East, North West, all over the country, all the kidnappings of schoolchildren, they don’t have Intel and this is why you cannot engage this kind of government, imagine somebody proposing that you should engage this kind of government, engage them to do what? You cannot engage an unreasonable government. A government that disrespects”CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
