Nigerian police are illiterate fools – Singer Paul Okoye slams brutality
Nigerian music star and former member of the defunct group P–square Paul Okoye seems to have had enough of the Nigerian’s police brutality.
Taking to social media, the celebrated singer shared a series of posts on Instagram in which he fired shots at the police.
According to him, the Nigeria Police Force is bringing a lot of shame to the country while a lot of citizens are trying to make the country proud.
Okoye put up screenshot images of two of the latest victims of police brutality and stated that the officers are a ‘bunch of illiterates.’
“While musicians and sportsmen and women and young entrepreneurs are making the country proud all over the world, Nigeria police are busy disgracing us. Bunch of illiterate fools,” he wrote.
According to reports, many citizens have shared gruelling experiences they have had with the Nigerian police by being harassed, beaten up or worse, killed extrajudicially or by stray bullets.
Okoye joined actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Singer Seun Kuti in condemning the police brutality in their motherland.
In April this year, actress Omotola Jalade expressed shock over the Nigeria Vice President’s silence over the way and manner SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad) had turned the country into a death trap.
“@profosibanjo it is shocking that Nigeria has turned into a death trap under your watch and you are silent! You are silent! At a time like this under your leadership,” she wrote.
On his part, Grammy-nominated singer, Seun Kuti, said that these special police officers were only doing what they have been ordered to do.
“If you think there is a problem with SARS then there is a problem with you. SARS is doing what they are paid to do, they are doing exactly what they are ordered to do. You don’t understand the attitude and psychology behind our behaviour but we all want to cry, the victim. SARS is the manifestation of our acceptance of our dehumanization.
“As black people, one thing we should know is that we are entitled to be everything that humanity is, especially the bad and still be considered human being. No matter what you do, you are still a human being, this is what humans do,” he said.
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