Students As Scape Goat Of Indiscipline In Nigeria Police Force
When conscienceless power meets with powerless conscience; the former laugh first and the later laugh last. The history of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) within the context of ‘students’ is a history punctuated with flood of sweats, tears, bloods and lives. It is the history that reduces the combine Sharpeville and Soweto masseurs to childsplay.
It is the history that legitimized insanity and constitutionalized uniformania. In any case the activities of the uniform men is the history of power allocated to the barrel of the gun. This is to say that the history is that of sadistic barbaric zombies in human clothing.
It is most unfortunate that the Nigeria police which is supposed to be the constructive instrument of protection and defense of life and properties as turn out to be an unprogressive machination of destruction, dehumanization and anarchism. It is now the characteristic features of the Nigeria police to baton, booth, wound, maim and shoot when they collide with students, these we condemn without reservation.
There comes a hopeless conspiracy when we recall the criminal silence, treasonable passivity and subtle sanction usually displayed by the cream of the society each time Nigerian students are gunned down by uniform men. It will be superficial to assume / assert that the occasioned students / police confrontation which usually resulted in the massacre of Nigeria students is the sole hand work of the Nigeria Police, I make bold to say that the Nigeria ruling class aids it, the Nigerian elite parents abet it, the Nigerian human right activists condone it and the press compromises it.
FRANTZ FANON would say “the future would have no pity for those men who possessing the exceptional privilege to being able to speak the words of truth to their oppressors, but have taken refuge in an attitude of passivity of mute indifference, and sometimes in cold complicity”
Recalling the catalogue of systematic elimination of Nigerian students is to bring back the melancholy of morning and moaning our friends who had fall victims of indiscipline and maladies, but the Nigeria police would not seize giving us reasons to fall on our wound which often calls for students march for justice. Never has there been reason why Nigeria students would exclude the Nigeria police from the wretched of the earth and revolting system we are fighting against.
The burning crisis of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo is another show of shame of the Nigeria police, display of unprofessionalism any a tyrannical oppressing scene. A reckless driver displaying his recklessness in the name of being a police knocked down students on motto-bike neglected them helplessly and took to his heels. Students in solidarity march on the getting the critical statutory conditions of the victims, accompanied by the rector and directorate of students affairs were repelled by tear gas and bullets of the police leaving the students with more causalities , bullet injuries and a cocoa villa of the institution burnt down.
Is there any assurance that it won’t happen again? This the more reason we need stand to our feet to seek justice this time or we have the cause to come through this bitter situation again. It is essential we march in confrontation with identical confrontation to put a stop to the mess, neither gun nor musketeers do we have but we shall prove to them that only on superficial level do power emanates from the gun but on the fundamental level power emanates from the supreme will of the people.
This struggle is essential as to enable us know who really the murdered of Nigeria students are, the Nigeria police or the on-looking traitor who will keep mute and hide behind the mask of Nigerian socio-political system. We call on all comrade and activist of good will to help as we ensure that an immediate stop is put to the seasonal massacre of Nigeria students by the operation of the Nigeria police.
Comrade Olugbode Damola.H
(ALUTA D-MODE)
Naps National P.R.O