Culled form Daily Newswacth
Thursday, April 03, 2014
By: WALE AKINOLA April 3, 2014 in Politics Leave a comment
Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has berated the Department of State Security (DSS) for alleged killing of 21 people suspected to be members of the Boko Haram insurgents last Sunday.
Executive Chairman of CACOL, Debo Adeniran, in statement on Tuesday, condemned the SSS for the mass killing of the suspects and called for quick investigation into the incident.
Adeniran explained that it baffles every right-thinking Nigerian why it was difficult for the men of the SSS to subdue only the one that disarmed their man. “If the gun seized by the suspect contained 90 rounds of ammunitions, why shooting for a prolonged time?
“The earlier story was that they were in handcuffs, how did the only one able to lose his mates? How did detainees have the opportunity to engage the SSS operatives for such long hour? How many guns did they have access to, to have given them the chance to engage the SSS men? These and many more are questions begging for answers from our secret police.
“It is worthy to note that this is not the first time such would happen and that presupposes what happened in places where security agencies claimed that they had confrontations with Boko Haram elements and killed them in droves.
“As a matter, it gives some insight into how their leader was killed initially and that could have been what had been replicating itself by the security agencies each time they maul down the members of the sect.
“Killing 21 people extra-judicially should be frowned at. The sanctity of life cannot be over-emphasized. It is not enough for the SSS to come up with cock and bull stories to bamboozle Nigerians, the fact must be laid bare.
“It is a good thing that the SSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, claimed they have started investigation into the incident; the report of the incident must be made public. Nigerians want to know how 21 suspects got killed in a confrontation that had only one suspect overpowering an SSS official and there was only one gun to the advantage of the detainees,” the statement read.