The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu says the Nigerian Police will never allow another type of #EndSARS protest again.
Speaking yesterday in Abuja, when he met with Commissioners of Police, the IGP said the Force is ready to face anyone who organises or participates in such protests across the country.
Adamu said the Police officers protected demonstrators during the #EndSARS protest in October, but it later turned violent and led to loss of lives and properties.
We have made a lot of arrests of those people that escaped from prisons. Some were even arrested in Kano and Kaduna. When they escaped, some of them went back to their business of robbery; we will never allow this type of #EndSARS protests again. It was violent. Peaceful protest is allowed in our constitutions, he stated.
Even our Constitution does not accept violent protests; so, those people that are planning to come up with another protest, if theyve planned it to be a violent one, they should re-think; otherwise, we have prepared to face them, the IGP emphasised.
Were to protect this country from hoodlums; to protect this country from violence, and we want every Nigerian to work with us, to prevent what had happened as the aftermath of the end of SARS in terms of destruction of public properties, loss of lives, businesses of individuals were crippled, corporate institutions were destroyed.
“Well-meaning Nigerians should join hands with us so as to prevent recurrence of such”, he stated.
