Atiku Condemns Nasarawa's Police Killing

"I am deeply devastated at the incident in Eggon, Nassarawa State, where scores of policemen and SSS operatives were killed in cold blood by the Ombatse cult. 

The savage incident, which is the worst single attack on policemen and SSS officers in recent times, also poses one of the greatest dangers to innocent citizens who are supposed to be protected by the police. 

As trained security agents to stem or eliminate criminality in the society, any threats to the lives of the police inevitably pose grave dangers to the lives of fellow Nigerians. 

The uncontrolled emergence of criminal gangs that threaten law and order is a threat that must be collectively confronted by Nigerians rather than abdicating the responsibility to the security agents alone.

Human intelligence requires public cooperation in helping the security forces to identify, neutralize or destroy violent groups that have no regard for the sanctity of lives.

While criminal groups are like cancer that grow slowly, they should be exposed early enough by the communities where they operate.

Citizen participation is essential to effective crime prevention because security men cannot be everywhere at the same time.

At this period of widening dimension of criminality and lawlessness, the police force needs every support to succeed. If the force is vulnerable, then, the entire country is at grave risk."..

Atiku Abubakar was the former Vice President of Nigeria