Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, expressed his anger on security operatives at the Federal Ministry of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria, when one of the police officers said that their VIP was coming.

Prof. Chidi Odinkalu and Jaiye Gaskiya, who are both conveners of‘Nigeria Mourns 2019’, led other Nigerians on a street march to mourn the victims of violent deaths across the country as a result of insecurity, especially in the North West region. Prof. Chidi Odinkalu was at the front of the Ministry protesting when a police officer said that his VIP was coming. The statement angered Prof. Odinkalu.

In reaction, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu sat on the ground and demanded that he be shot, saying that he was going nowhere. He expressed his worries over the fact that thousands of Nigerians are been killed and all the government personnel was concerned about was his VIP. He therefore demanded that somebody must apologize for that. According to him, many Nigerians have been victims of insecurity in the country.

During the march, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu said that the march is about people from every part of the country who have died because they did not need to die. He noted that at the moment, Nigeria is doing VIP Policing, adding that over 33 per cent of the police assets we have are deployed to protect big men which means we don’t have the policing assets we need at the points of need, which is the communities, and that instead, the politicians are calling for state police so that they can control it and divert it away from us.

“The medium between state police and what we have at the moment is community policing. It will enable us to put police in the communities where ordinary people are, where they can get support and help and where it is possible for them to provide utmost service, and that is what we are asking for.
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“This (insecurity) crisis has become an opportunity for us as a country. The most fundamental reform that this country needs with respect to insecurity is that we need to reform governance at the local level.

“Our communities are ungoverned spaces, there is no governance at the community level. Let us restore democratically self-governance to our communities, and let communities then handle their own security system. We can then put in place processes for coordination and synergy.

“The police chief has gone, and for that we are thankful, because we can see some change in the policing. The new Inspector-General of police (Adamu Mohammed), I think, deserves some commendation. We are not saying he’s done everything, but we can see that some things are changing.

“We are not asking for miracles, we are asking for evidence that the leaders care. We have given the service chiefs and the cabinet members enough time… We should thank them for their services and disengage them and bring in new people with new ideas, he said.

Recalls that Human Rights Activists in Nigeria have set aside every May 28 as a day of national mourning for Nigerians who died as a result of criminal activities due to lack of security in land.

Below is a video of the incident:

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