…Urges security agencies to be civil in approach
\nA political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of
\nthe All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Thursday,
\ncondemned reports of harassment of citizens by some military officers
\nand other security agents enforcing the lockdown directive of the
\nFederal Government.<\/p>\n
President Muhammadu Buhari had in a nationwide broadcast ordered a
\nstay-at-home for residents of Lagos, Ogun and the FCT in a bid to
\ncontain the spread of the COVID-19.<\/p>\n
Frank, in a statement in Abuja, described any form of harassment against
\nNigerians at the present moment as one suffering too many.<\/p>\n
He urged the agents of the military, police and other security agencies
\nenforcing the present lockdown across the country to be civil in their
\napproach in order not to unduly increase the burden of hunger already
\nbeing borne by poor and vulnerable Nigerians.<\/p>\n
He noted that the reported cases of assault\u00a0 against Nigerians on
\nessential duties like Journalists, Doctors and telecomunication staff in
\nLagos and Abuja have no place in a civilized setting like Nigeria.<\/p>\n
He noted that it amounted to an aberration of grave proportion in the
\nfirst place to deploy military personnel into the streets to enforce a
\nstay-at-home order.<\/p>\n
The Bayelsa-born political activist, insisted that apart from workers on
\nessential duties\u00a0 duly exempted by the President in his broadcast, there
\nare countless Nigerians that might need urgent medical attention in the
\naffected areas.<\/p>\n
“The military should have deployed their energy to defeat Boko Haram,
\nbandits and all other criminal tendencies in the North-east in
\nparticular and Nigeria in general whose sole reason for being on the
\nstreets is to secure their daily bread.<\/p>\n
“It should be noted that poverty is ravaging the land and the saying
\nthat ‘an hungry man is an angry man’ might apply if there is no modicum
\nof civility in handling the situation by the military and other security
\nagencies.<\/p>\n
“If the government actually wants the people to stay at home, amenities
\nlike stable electricity, water and other necessary palliatives must be
\nprovided.<\/p>\n
“Even as poor as Rwanda is, President Paul Kagame has been able to
\nprovide enough comfort for the citizens to enable them stay at home
\nwithout any resort to the use of force.<\/p>\n
“Why can’t the Federal Government make citizens comfortable for once?”<\/p>\n
Frank, however appealed to citizens to strictly abide by the
\nstay-at-home order in other to speed up the containment of the deadly
\nvirus.<\/p>\n
“Let’s take the inconveniences of the moment as worthy sacrifices to
\nsafeguard our lives and effectively contain the spread of the dreaded
\nCoronavirus pandemic,” Frank said.<\/p>\n
He called for more sensitization of the populace to the dangers of
\nCOVID-19 and
\nprayed for a quick end to the dire global challenge.<\/p>\n
…Urges security agencies to be civil in approach A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Thursday, condemned reports…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"\n