{"id":3504,"date":"2013-05-11T15:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/lawyers-league-condemns-nassarawa-massacre\/"},"modified":"2013-05-11T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T15:26:31","slug":"lawyers-league-condemns-nassarawa-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/lawyers-league-condemns-nassarawa-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers league condemns Nassarawa massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Citizens Platform<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Public Interest Lawyers League has joined its voice in condemning the gruesome killing of officers of the Nigeria Police Force by members of the Ombatse cult in Nassarawa state.<\/p>\n

The group in a press statement said the recent killing of police officers in the country shows that militants and terrorists have made the force appear like a \u2018ragtag band incapable of defending itself\u2019.<\/p>\n

The stament reads: \u201cDoubtless, the gruesome killings of officers of the Force by members of the Ombatse cult are truly a new low. The ease with which the officers were ambushed and killed highlights the fact that the Nigeria Police Force is still rooted in its antiquated zombie strings\u2019 strategy of combating enemies of the Nigerian state by mobilising officers into arenas of armed conflicts in zombie strings.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day armed officers are headed like chickens in a single file of siren-blazing combat vehicles into arenas of conflicts. In this day of modern policing, approaching arenas of conflicts in a manner shorn of \u2018\u2019military swarming\u2019\u2019 is suicidal. The Ombatse attack exposed the combat unpreparedness of the Force.<\/p>\n

Officers we lose every day are our kin and kith. We can\u2019t continue to make widows and widowers out of citizens who are married to officers of the Nigeria Police Force\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are alarmed by the ease with which forty-three officers of the Nigeria Police Force were ambushed and killed by Ombatse cultists; and we ask; was the police operation in Nasarawa-Eggon designed and managed by the Force\u2019s High Command?, was the operation informed by reconnaissance intelligence and how was the intelligence analysed?, was there any Operational Command Control set up to manage the operation?, Were there reinforcement back-ups for the operation?, Was any risk analysis undertaken by the Operational Command Control before the slain officers were mobilised?<\/p>\n

The group says it demand answers to the so many unanswered questions surrounding the massive massacre. \u201cWhilst we condole with the men and women of the Force that have lost their beloved friends and colleague and with the widows, children and families of the slain officers who will forever bear the agonies of grieves, we demand answers from the apparatchiks of the Force\u2019s High Command\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Source: Citizens Platform<\/p>\n

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