The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, has called on the Nigeria Police Force to take proactive measures regarding the attack on its presidential candidate in Benue State.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Osa Director, made the call on Friday while fielding questions in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, asking the police to make the prosecution of the culprits public.
He commended the arrest of 46 suspects linked to the attack but warned against the tendency to sweep the matter under the carpet.
Director, therefore, demanded greater accountability, urging the police to ensure that those arrested are prosecuted publicly.
“The police should have prevented those miscreants and hoodlums from gathering at that place to block our presidential candidate from entering Benue or, in the worst-case scenario, arrested them on the spot while they were there.
“They should not have waited for the event to happen before they started reacting. But still, we commend them for taking this professional decision of going after those suspected to have committed that act.
“We are also using this opportunity to demand from the Inspector-General of Police that this should not just be a round-off situation where we hear about arrests but, at the end of the day, we don’t know what happened to those who were arrested,” he said.
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