SAN Blames Lack of Political Will for Increasing Insecurity

A Professor of Law, Yemi Akinseye-George (SAN), has identified the lack of political will on the part of elected government officials as the reason for the upsurge in insecurity currently plaguing all parts of Nigeria.

Akinseye-George, who is the president of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), lamented that daily media report is replete with killings, kidnappings, jail breaking, attacks on law enforcement personnel, destruction of courts, and threats of invasion of different parts of the country by bandits, terrorists, cultists, cattle rustlers, and other outlaws.

He stated this last Tuesday in Abuja during a workshop to ‘Review and Validate the Explanatory Notes on the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015’.

According to him, “Before proceeding further in this welcome address, it is necessary to say a few words on the dire security situation of our country, which threatens not only the justice sector but also the very existence of our country. We share the concern of wellmeaning Nigerians who have cried out about the worsening situation of security of lives and property in our country.”

While expressing worry that criminals have appeared to be waxing stronger by the day, as they are often paid huge sums of cash in exchange for the release of their victims, he observed that security operatives as well as apparatus appear to be poorly resourced and ill-equipped.

Akinseye-George also expressed fear that the security operatives may have begun to succumb to the superior determination and fire power of the outlaws.