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Check Bad Police Officers
I want to join other well-meaning Nigerians in condemning the nonsensical attitude of police officers. It is a well known fact that there is hardly any profession, department or organization without bad eggs.
Unfortunately, in the case of the Police, the bad eggs far outnumber the good ones and the honest ones are almost unknown.
For instance, the Police whose responsibility is to ensure that lives and property of citizens are protected as well as ensure compliance to traffic regulations, use their position to extort money from innocent citizens who seek their help and exploit motorists. Some of the others have little or no feeling for others. They enjoy inflicting pains on citizens without cause.
I, therefore, call on the Inspector General of Police to look into this problem and educate his men to be transparent and polite to members of the public and also collecting of bribe and being hard to citizens without any cause should be a great offence.
Roseline Miekpainma,
Rivers State University.