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Group Blames Police for National Insecurity

Daily Trust (Abuja)
NEWS
June 3, 2003
Posted to the web June 3, 2003

By Salisu Zakari Maradun
Gusau
The Global Network for Islamic Justice, a non-governmental organization with
its headquarters in Gusau the Zamfara State, has strongly condemned the
attitude of the police in the country for their inability to protect lives and
property.
In a press statement signed by the president of the organization and its
secretary, Muhammed Abba Dankande and Ibrahim Tudu respectively and made
available to Daily Trust in Gusau they expressed sadness over the killing of an
Islamic scholar and lamented that the police have not succeded in bringing the
murderers to book.
This organization, according to the statement, found the murder as a gruesome
and repulsive act describing the action of the killers as outrageous and
provocative.
The statement further asked "how could the police fail to carry out their
responsibility of protecting the lives and property of every person in
Nigeria?" We also call on the police not to allow to flourish, the idea that a
group of persons, whether an ethnic militia or a gang of cultists under the
guise of carrying out festivals to destroy innocent lives and property with
impunity."
Muslim Ummah, not only of this country, but indeed every Muslim is waiting and
expecting justice to be done for the murdered sheikh, the statement emphasized.
Global Network for Islamic Justice therefore is of the opinion that the crime
must be investigated, culprits fished out and punished to serve as a deterrent
to others, as silence on the part of the authorities, when lives of the
innocents are terminated is totally unacceptable.

   

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