Security agencies prioritise “regime protection, not confronting criminality,” he says
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Kingsley Moghalu, a professor and former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Deputy Director and former presidential candidate, has lamented the brutalisation of citizens peacefully protesting hunger by the Nigerian state that fails to confront criminal elements with the same “ferocity and determination.”
He was reacting to the current protest sparked by hardship and hunger in which police and soldiers have opened fire on youths and killed some.
Moghalu in an X (Twitter) post deplored the mindset of the security operatives programmed to ensure regime protection rather than protection of lives and properties.
The #EndBadGovernance protest North and South entered its seventh day today having left a trail of deaths, arrests, destruction and lootings of properties, despite appeals by President Bola Tinubu and other Nigerians for the protesters to stop the demonstration.
“@PoliceNG & other security agencies in Nigeria have an unfortunate mindset. Their number one priority is regime protection, not the protection of Nigerian lives and property. That is why they have wanton disregard for the lives of protesters, & is why kidnapping, terrorism reign,” Moghalu said.
“If they were to confront criminality with the ferocity and determination they exhibit toward citizens who are protesting hunger, our security situation would be vastly different and improved. The Nigerian state has little regard for its citizens, political rhetorics aside.”
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