Shoot Anyone Trying To Set Suspected Criminals Ablaze, Police Boss Orders Men
Olorunfemi Ojo
In a bid to curtail jungle justice in Kwara state, the Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr Ambrose Aisabor has ordered his men to open fire on people trying to set suspected criminals ablaze.
Mr Aisabor gave this order while addressing reporters on Friday after the police rescued a sane man accused of being a mad man from a group of people trying to set him ablaze.
The Police boss explained that the order was as a result of rampant lynching of innocent people labelled mad men and kidnappers.
The lynching of innocent persons has
become rampant after several persons thought to be mad confessed to being kidnappers in neighbouring State.
The Police Commissioner’s order to his men, however, may not be justified by the rampant lynching to death of Nigerians who deserve
Justice through court process and not
jungle justice.
In a related development, the Police in
Ilorin have arrested 15 suspects allegedly wanting to set ablaze the family house of a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress in the state, Mr Kawu Baraje.
While parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Ilorin, the state’s capital, the police commissioner said that a distress call was received on Wednesday that hoodlums were about setting the family house of Mr
Baraje, ablaze. Through quick intervention of his men the hoodlums planning to burn down the house at Baboko area of Ilorin were arrested after an exchange of gunfire that left
three people injured and 14 vehicles damaged.
Speaking further, Mr Aisabor said several dangerous weapons were recovered from the suspects after they were arrested adding that, police had started investigations into the issue to determine why the hoodlums wanted to burn the house.