Niger state Attorney General Barr Nasiru Mua’zu promise to use instruments of law to end thuggery and youth restiveness
BY UTHMAN BABA-SIRAJDEEN,MINNA.
The Niger State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Barrister Nasiru Mua’zu, has promised to use the instruments of the law to bring down the growing rate of youths restfivenes and thuggery across the State just as he called for a strong collaboration with the Ñiger State Police Command
He assured the State Command of his Ministry support in ensuring that the increasing Proportion of youths restfivenes and other security Challenges in the state are brought to an end.
The Attorney General made this known while on a courtesy visit to the Commissioner of Police in Niger State, CP Abudullahi Adamu Elleman in his office , noting that the office of the Attorney General is worried with the activities of ” these miscreants that have been making Minna the state capital inhabitable in recent times”
According to him, members of the public also need to support relevant security agencies in the state with the needed information on the activities of these miscreants ” so that they can be taken away from the streets in the general interest of the citizens”
He said “As you all known police and other security forces as well as the courts cannot perform any margic neither are they margicians.
” Without Any vital information from the Public on the identity of these miscreants and their hideouts you cannot expect any margic from the security agencies. So all stakeholders must collaborate with the relevant security agencies to flush out these youths from our midsts” he asserted
Speaking further, Nasiru Mua’zu described as disturbing the undue interference of some prominent individuals and parents on the prosecution of their children involvement in criminity warning that full wrath of the law will be visited on such parents.
The Attorney General assured that the Judiciary will continue to leave up its constitutional mandate in ensuring the full Prosecution of the miscreants and appropriate punishment are mented on them if found guilty noting that unnecessary interference as the factor responsible for the effective Prosecution of the miscreants
In his remarks, the Commissioner of Police CP Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, applauded the Commissioner for Justice for the visit and assure that the Command under his leadership will synergize with the office of the Attorney General in ensuring the speedy dispensation of Criminal Justice in the state.
He noted that the Police, as a critical stakeholders in the administration of Criminal Justice would continue to partner with the Ministry in making the state unsafe for Criminal elements in the state
CP Adamu Elleman requested the support of the office of the Attorney General for training and retraining of investigating Police Officers (IPO) this according to the Commissioner of Police will improve the capacity of the Police investigators for effective performance.
He assured that the legal department of the Command will give the needed empowerment to officers and men for effective Prosecution of cases and the legal department will be mornitored for sustained result.
