Insecurity: Security Outfit personnel committing suicide by facing bandits and terrorists with cutlass and dane guns – Femi Falana laments Outfits ban on gun use

Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana has lamented the spate of insecurity in the country. He said the federal government in spite of the decentralization of Police power is not doing enough to protect citizens. He said even with the unconstitutional creation of security outfits, they are still not allowed to bear arms

Falana stated this in a paper titled Good Governance or Misgovernance: The Contract Called Democracy, and delivered yesterday at the 50th anniversary interactive session held by the Abeokuta Club in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

He wondered how the personnel of the security outfits are expected to carry out their tasks with mere cutlass and dane guns as against AK-47 bearing terrorists and bandits

Falana said, “In spite of the decentralisation of police powers at the centre the Federal Government has continued to kick against the creation of state police service on the ground that it is unconstitutional!”

“No doubt, based on the virtual collapse of the security architecture of the neocolonial State, the Federal Government has grudgingly allowed state government to create state or regional security outfits. But they are not allowed to bear arms.”

“The personnel of the regional security outfits who are armed with cutlasses and dane guns are expected to commit suicide by confronting AK 47 bearing terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, herders and robbers.”