Monday, September 1, 2025 - Investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, says men of the Nigerian police force are no different from Boko Haram if you strip them of their uniform.
Soyombo said this on X, while revealing the threat police
officers attached to the Ikeja police command in Lagos state allegedly made
during assaul on a journalist.
Soyombo wrote
‘’If the
officers of the Ikeja @PoliceNG
Command
can tell a journalist while assaulting him: “I will cut off your neck now… you
will die here, and the autopsy will show asthma killed you — not police
brutality”, only God knows what they do to other civilians behind closed doors.
Despite all
the learnings they should have taken from 2020 #EndSARS, the police continue to
terrorise Nigerians every day, and for this reason the police in my eyes are no
different from any other terrorist group.
They’re no
different from Boko Haram, bandits, IPOB or herdsmen if you strip them of their
uniforms and their constitutional backing. A stench-filled institution from the
very top to its bottom!''
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