Missing Voices, a human rights watchdog, with impeccable credentials tracking police atrocities, especially extra-judicial killings, have released a spine-chilling report revealing police officers resorting to forced disappearances as a way of evading scrutiny.
In 2023 the report reveals 118 people, mainly youths, were killed by rogue police officers while 10 youths disappeared without trace.
But in a horrifying escalation, the number of disappearances shot up dramatically from 10 in 2023 to 55 in 2024.
The figures will obviously include the kidnappings and abductions that followed in the aftermath of the Gen Z demos last year.
And in an infuriating turn of events, the Independent Police Oversight Authority blamed the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions as the weakest link in the arrest and prosecution of police officers suspected of running execution squads.
Ipoa and the ODPP must work as a team, as a matter of necessity, to send a strong and unequivocal message to rogue police officers that murder under the flimsy guise of enforcing the law will never be tolerated.
Besides, the youth they target have broken no
law other than to exercise their constitutional right to express themselves and
to point out ills in government.
Quote of the day: “In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security.” — Renowned historian and scholar Edward Gibbon was born on May 8, 1737.
