Chief Executive Officer of Aerofield Homes, Lagos, Armstrong ‘Tope Akintunde
The Chief Executive Officer of Aerofield Homes, Lagos, Armstrong ‘Tope Akintunde, has said that it is high time Nigerian government started taking the empowerment and welfare of youths very seriously, adding that no country fails to do these without grave consequences.
Akintunde stated this while lending his voice to the protest by the youth against police brutality in the country.
The real estate merchant declared that failure of successive governments to see the youth as major stakeholders in the governance process “was part of the factors that emboldened the Nigeria Police to maltreat the youth and oftentimes send some of them to their early grave.”
Akintunde added that “I am with my constituency, the youth, on this march against impunity, recklessness, abuse of power, extortion, extrajudicial killings among other acts of illegality having free reign in Nigeria police. It is said that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the police was notorious for this and the Nigerian youths have always been at the receiving end. This is condemnable and must stop forthwith.”
He noted that it is not enough for the Federal Government to disband SARS but to commence wholistic reforms of the Nigeria police so that it can henceforth be service-oriented and operate according to international best practices.
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The Federal Government, he said, should use the occasion of the ongoing EndSARS protest to fight bad governance, unemployment corruption and begin to consider integrating the youths into the governance process.
Akintunde, who is an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, however, commended the governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo
Abiodun, for setting up a judicial investigation panel on police brutality as well as earmarking on a N50m support fund for victims of alleged police brutality.
He said that sincere efforts such as this would help a lot to heal the wound inflicted on the youths and calm frayed
nerves.
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