Group wants removal or resignation of service chiefs over insecurity

Angered by rampant killings in the country, Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has sought the removal or resignation of service chiefs for their failure to arrest banditry.

In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Henry Peter Ekine, the group berated the Nigerian leadership, the President and security agencies over insecurity in Nigeria.

In the statement titled: CDHR Furious Over State Of The Nation: Insecurity Or War? it lamented that extrajudicial killings of citizens by criminal gangs and state agents have raised its concern on the threat to the security of lives of property.

Comparing the killings to a war situation, it said all kinds of guns, arms, ammunition and weapons were being used indiscriminately against unprotected Nigerians by non-state actors, bandits, insurgents, and even state actors.

“The most recent gruesome murder of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti in Ondo State, is one killing too many,” it added.