The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 11, Olasupo Ajani Olasupo Ajani has bemoaned the distance and disrespect between the police and the citizens caused by #EndSARS campaign against police brutality.
He has also appealed to Nigerians to stop attacking the personnel of the force and see them as brothers and sisters.
Ajani made the appeal on Tuesday during a stakeholders’ meeting and his farmiliarisation visit to the police command in Oyo State at the command’s headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan
The AIG who observed that #EndSARS protest had created distance and disrespect between the police and the citizens, added that the police and the citizens have been working together peacefully before the EndSARS issues.
“You stakeholders that are here as representatives of the people; please sensitise your people and let us go back to the way we were before the EndSARS protests.
“EndSARS has created a sort of vacuum and we want to reclaim the space again and be closer to the people; any police that want to be successful must have the support of the people.
“We must cooperate and work together for peace to reign in this country,” Ajani said.
It’s worthwhile to note that there has been a rise in attacks on security operatives following the #EndSARS protest.
The attacks which mostly occur in the South Eastern part of Nigeria has seen the force lose arms while detainees were freed from custody.
