In one of my recent surfing on the web, I was quite fortunate to stumble upon an old picture of the old sage, Professor Wole Soyinka, as he was been led away by an official of the Nigerian Police Force, from the piece it's crystal clear that he was been arrested and the police man in charge simply did his job in a very respectable and dignified manner worthy of a law enforcement officer, while the old Sage, simply walked with his hands in his pockets, strolling along like a man walking into a bar, while the police man walked few seconds behind him.
Such was the beauty of the Nigerian Police Force back then, when the devil has not yet introduced his own shade of black into the black uniform they wear.
It grieves me so much even as I fingers sorrowfully punches my keypad, airing out my feelings, and I can only wish I have some esoteric power, which cab bring back the good old days when our law enforcement officers lived and acted worthy of their trade, I remember how my mum once smacked my little brother when he jokingly said he wanted to become a police man, mum simply told him to look for a better career path, nothing is good about them, took me years to understand this, for all I see of the Nigerian Police force was a set of people in blacks with hungry looking batons who are well skilled in collecting money on our highways.
For objectivity sake, I would like to commend them for at least living up to expectations in some aspects of our national life, well they be tried, but I will not spend my time listing their achievements, that's not the sole aim of my discourse, let's us strike the nail while it's still hot, the recent level at which members of the Nigerian Police force have shown that they have little or no respect for human rights in Nigeria is quite alarming, we are a nation with a clearly spelt out rules and regulations as entrenched in the constitution, and as stipulated by the law, they are meant to enforce these laws, protecting the citizens in the process, but this does not place them above the rule of law, for every individual, group etc, there are checks and balances, one of the mission statements of the NPF which caught my eyes ,"To participate in efforts aimed at addressing the root causes of crime while ensuring that any criminal act is investigated so as to bring the criminals to justice in a fair and professional manner" to be sincere, the NPF clearly lacks professionalism, and it seems that thugs and vagabonds grace the NPF uniform, public attention has been drawn to the recent show of shame displayed by some members of the Nigerian Police Force in which a man was recently chained to their car, and they took much pleasure in dragging him along, while the car was moving, tears, RIP to common sense among them, I see no difference between them an some uncivilized middle age folks, or animal, because it's only an irrational and sense deprived fellow who will choose to ignore the law, a constitutional provision upon which they are sworn to protect.
It's upon this that I sought to make a clarion call to all members of the society, irrespective of social strata that the law is not a tool to be toyed with, we owe humanity the obligation to live right, by the societal codes and conduct, the mere fact that we are to enforce the law should not give us the notion thar we are above the law, instead, we should see it as an honour, a great responsibility which must be guided with all sense of humility and patriotism, God help us to create a society we're justice and fairness entrenched on the template of equity, failure to do this, we are no different from Animal, better still far worse than them, for we have the ability to reason which they posses not. Peace.
Amudipe Opeyemi Marcus
Such was the beauty of the Nigerian Police Force back then, when the devil has not yet introduced his own shade of black into the black uniform they wear.
It grieves me so much even as I fingers sorrowfully punches my keypad, airing out my feelings, and I can only wish I have some esoteric power, which cab bring back the good old days when our law enforcement officers lived and acted worthy of their trade, I remember how my mum once smacked my little brother when he jokingly said he wanted to become a police man, mum simply told him to look for a better career path, nothing is good about them, took me years to understand this, for all I see of the Nigerian Police force was a set of people in blacks with hungry looking batons who are well skilled in collecting money on our highways.
For objectivity sake, I would like to commend them for at least living up to expectations in some aspects of our national life, well they be tried, but I will not spend my time listing their achievements, that's not the sole aim of my discourse, let's us strike the nail while it's still hot, the recent level at which members of the Nigerian Police force have shown that they have little or no respect for human rights in Nigeria is quite alarming, we are a nation with a clearly spelt out rules and regulations as entrenched in the constitution, and as stipulated by the law, they are meant to enforce these laws, protecting the citizens in the process, but this does not place them above the rule of law, for every individual, group etc, there are checks and balances, one of the mission statements of the NPF which caught my eyes ,"To participate in efforts aimed at addressing the root causes of crime while ensuring that any criminal act is investigated so as to bring the criminals to justice in a fair and professional manner" to be sincere, the NPF clearly lacks professionalism, and it seems that thugs and vagabonds grace the NPF uniform, public attention has been drawn to the recent show of shame displayed by some members of the Nigerian Police Force in which a man was recently chained to their car, and they took much pleasure in dragging him along, while the car was moving, tears, RIP to common sense among them, I see no difference between them an some uncivilized middle age folks, or animal, because it's only an irrational and sense deprived fellow who will choose to ignore the law, a constitutional provision upon which they are sworn to protect.
It's upon this that I sought to make a clarion call to all members of the society, irrespective of social strata that the law is not a tool to be toyed with, we owe humanity the obligation to live right, by the societal codes and conduct, the mere fact that we are to enforce the law should not give us the notion thar we are above the law, instead, we should see it as an honour, a great responsibility which must be guided with all sense of humility and patriotism, God help us to create a society we're justice and fairness entrenched on the template of equity, failure to do this, we are no different from Animal, better still far worse than them, for we have the ability to reason which they posses not. Peace.
Amudipe Opeyemi Marcus
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