The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has tasked the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, and the Inspector General of Police, IGP, to investigate the circumstances surrounding last Sunday’s killing of a Nigerian by a Customs operative on the Benin-Lagos Express road.
NBA also accused the custom personnel operating in that part of the country of allegedly “being in the business of extorting motorists and passengers on the road,” adding that the “shameful act paints the country in a very bad light, and it must stop.”
The association in the statement by its Publicity Secretary, Kunle Edun, noted that the protection of lives and properties of Nigerians was the responsibility of government, warning that the lives of Nigerians should not be cut short by trigger-happy armed security personnel who have no business being on the road. It said:
“The NBA calls on the Inspector General of Police, the National Security Adviser, NSA, and the leadership of the Nigerian Customs Service to quickly intervene in this matter by setting up an investigation panel that will unravel the circumstances that led to the killing of the Nigerian.
The reported killing is unjustified and most reckless. We also demand that all persons involved in this dastardly act must be made to face the wrath of the law. This killing must not be swept under the carpet like others.”
God punish you all, have u ever came out one day to condemned the killing of customs officers killed by smugglers on daily bases including the resent killing of an officer in Ogun state along Abeokuta Ibadan road?
What a shame from the NBA’s body? When an officer killed non of u said anything, neither condemned it, where were the so called human right activist?
Are customs officers not human? Or their lives were not valuable? If you want do justice do it for all but not selective.
Idiots lawyers. Why NBA no call on d attention of smugglers who do kill customs almost everyday. So Nigeria laws cover smugglers to kill customs officers abi
You people are big fools. The guy that they shut was he a smuggler
Your own death his coming soon too
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