 The police and other security brutality must stop. According to Adam Grant, precedence is a poor reason for decisions. It classifies the status quo without a compelling rationale. It doesn't matter how long a tradition has stood. If the old ways is wrong, it should be challenged and changed. Progress decidifies in improving the future and not defending the past. The obvious high rate of insecurity challenges face in the country. Coupled with the decline in standard of living is enough to cause civil unrest. The security operatives are also heading up to the people's problems, all in the attempt to make illegal money. The recent complaints around Legals and Abuja where Uber or taxified drivers were reported to be conniving with police officers to implicate their passengers of drug trafficking or waterview is so worrisome. Not to talk about the hill experience of Legals beneath Expressway or that of illegal harassment within the cities in Nigeria. Lately, the first PRCSP Ulumu Iwa Adijobi said no Nigerian has the right to confront policemen or retaliates even if cops slap a civilian. The question is, do they even have a right to slap anyone in the first place? These and many other related issues are of great concern to a Sena society. But it's bad. No matter who is involved, it doesn't speak of age, position or power. We need to put an end to this madness called security brutality. May God Almighty heal our homes and bring peace to our land. The last man, officer, harassed a passenger in the vehicle, remember, and said you look like a Yawu boy. And the boy was bold enough to confront the last man back. What right does the last man have to label someone a Yawu boy? Is he written on the face? You don't judge people the way they appear. Of course, I agree that he's supposed to be a duck or a woman, your appearance in public. But you have no business with that for God's sake. There is a video circulating online now. Maybe you should go and google it. Where it's been alleged that the governor of one of the eastern states, I saw it yesterday online. Perhaps we should go back and check it online. Now, this governor went to inspect an ongoing project. I don't think he commissioned a route also, just to inspect a route construction site. And then when he got there, in his presence, I don't know what some individuals did. Perhaps they are trespassers or they are liberals. I can't see, but the person that was videoing it was on the other lane from his car. He was capturing the incidents where soldiers were flogging some men, flogging them in front of this government official. They were there, they were like, the soldiers should punish them. What did they do? Even if they did something wrong, can you just find a proper way of doing things? Okay, study three is why we normalize violence is because it started from the home official. Unfortunately, in most of our homes here, you see a father beating the mother. Or the father, you know, they just allow violence in the street. I feel it's a normal thing. So when you go out in the public, I see you are a police personnel or military personnel. You just feel, I have to correct this person. Who told you that? You are like, it's a disgrace, it's a shame to the country. We have to stop this, it's abuse of power. You can't just do that. You have no right to beat anybody, even a young person. You don't have any right to beat a young person on the street. Even if you misbehave, whether you're a policeman, that police officer that says that you don't have a right to retaliate to the policeman. Yeah, I agree. But the question is, does the policeman have the right to slap another person? It's madness. We should do better as a country. Erwa Shaygun, what do you say to this? I mean, we keep on hopping on these issues around police brutality and other security agencies. I mean, we need to speak to these issues and get to the root cause, which Elijah has been able to mention one. It's like everyone in Nigeria, we work around with so much hangar in us and the security operators are not an exception. It's like they leave their homes with all sorts of problems and they are looking for who to unleash this hangar on. I mean, I have had my own fair share of police brutality. I was, I mean, fixed away in a gestapo style. I mean, embarrassed because of a business deal, a legal business deal that we did. And the way I was arrested, I was never invited. There was no couple to be. You know, I was just stopped abruptly on the way and saw these five gone with the men. It was, they were not in uniform. You know, I was fixed away and then it took the intervention. You know, we believe in God in Nigeria. It took the intervention of God for me to be saved from the arrest because what they actually invited me for, I mean, they just needed information. I was handcuffed. Yes, on the streets. The embarrassment was so loud. I mean, people went to town with all sorts of news. By the time I came back into the neighborhood, I mean, people were looking at me with different terms. So, we need to, the training that our service men and the security officers get, needs to be re-jigged. Our men have to be civil in their dealings. They are not dealing with animal. We are all humans. Kuti, you know, I said something about the case of, okay, he said something about the case of Uber drivers conniving with policemen and telling that if you carry an iPhone or a laptop in your bag, like someone like me and me walking to the last person, I carry my laptop on my phone. I want to do some stuff. And then I get an Uber or a taxi driver and then the guy calls the police, I'm carrying someone. And they stop you. Can I see your laptop? Can I see your phone? I'm sure in the UK, a lot of people go about with smart gadgets because you have young guys doing quite a lot of things in the UK. So, tell us, how do you guys scoop in the UK with these things? And what can we learn from you guys? Yeah. There are also instances of police brutality here. But you know, the difference between here and New York is that if those instances are reported or if they come to light, there is heavy, a heavy disciplinary action against the police officers. I think that, you know, again, I would say it again and again and again that the systems that you have in your country support the behaviour of the citizens. If you have a country where a policeman can kill somebody and get a remit, other policemen will do the same. You know, it doesn't mean that, it's not to say that there will not be accidents or there will not be these where somebody just in a bad mood and then attack somebody else. But if, you know, even when they stop to think about what they are doing and have been in the situation that many of you find yourselves in have been accused of attempted murder before by policemen they are the ones that told the person what to say because the person told them that this person is highly connected so they have to bring a very big story, you know. And, you know, it just goes to show the level of discipline in the system and, you know, I've been arrested before even though I was going to play squash with six commissioners of police. So, you know, all sorts of things. So even what I was telling people that you don't even have to, people will say if you don't know anybody in this country sometimes even knowing somebody is not enough because you might be dead before you can pick up the phone to call that person. When I was arrested, I wasn't allowed to use my phone for about three hours. So, I wasn't allowed to use my phone for three hours until one of them took me to the room and I didn't say anything to them and I was trying to tell them, look, I want to call this person. When they heard the name, they started begging me. But after three hours, I was even crying at some point because I was so frustrated. I had to hide away, I was ill. You know, it was just to show you that even a big man can suffer in the hands of policemen if they decide to do bad. So what do I suggest? I suggest that again we look at the systems that we've created. This system, this system we have in the Geonic Race Monsters it's not just policemen. Everybody's animal. So at the end of the day, you know, there's even a big man in that body in the Rolls Royce can come down and start fighting. So, I think you don't need to make sure to do that. You mean, soldiers can do that now? They tell you to start doing from jump before you can call your general friend. Exactly. Yeah. The thing is, you said something quite interesting. But let me say this. They said police is your friend. That's the mantra. I want to believe that. Please, let's reorientate ourselves. If I remember, let me give you two scenarios. Case 31, in 2018, I was running of my service then and I was applying for something online. I went to the university at that time. I remember the University of Guinea with my laptop working at the sports companies when sports was going on. These are new games. Guess what happened? A police officer that was passing, a senior police officer I saw his insignia. He was coming down from the staircase. He saw me at the corner walking on my laptop. He gave me that look. What are you doing here? You know, normal thinking of me. I was actually assessing the internet just to do something like and I was working on an academic stuff. I need to submit. I was like, why are these people doing like, do you like take this laptop and you have started again. You know, he made that comment, like that stereotype comment. You guys, so everybody with a laptop or a tech gadget is bad. Case 33, 2019, I was in Cameroon and I was travelling for a program in Yaoundi. So when I left Limbi to Yaoundi on my way, policemen stop us on the road and they, of course, those guys, I mean Cameroonian police stopped us and like, asking questions that I think we are not necessary. They are not immigration officers. Give us visa, not just thinking they are talking to no visa. And when I challenge the policeman that you are not supposed to ask me for visa money. We don't give visa money on the road. You're not an immigration officer. If I want to be for visa, I will give that to him before coming. And guess what he said. He said your policemen are the better off. Is that what it is grace to win Nigerians? So using Nigerian police as bad example. So we should do better as a country. So I think I also agree to what you said. I can give, we can keep giving incidents upon incident. I can see even just like Kuti, I think the solution is we should have a system that punish whoever who does the wrong thing. When you do something bad, either you're a police officer, you're a civilian, you should be punished for doing something bad. Bad is bad. Right? Because I read in a long, a long police command a case where stolen cars were recovered by a police officer. And the police officer was able to successfully recover, but the top rank had to cut it and say this thing is not the real stuff. They had to derang those people. Right? On the road you see different, different harassment. But well just to conclude I think it is good for us to have a system that checkmate everybody irrespective of you being in power or being in position. It should be a system that tells all this is bad and there's a punishment for it and everybody must not be spared. And if you are doing something good it should be rewarded. 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