{"id":44008,"date":"2020-10-20T20:47:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=44008"},"modified":"2020-10-20T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:55:09","slug":"apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Apart From Police Brutality, Authorities Should Address Government Brutality-Akinterinwa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director General of the Bolytag Centre for International Diplomacy and Strategic Studies, Professor Bola Akinterinwa has said that apart from agitating against police brutality in Nigeria, brutality in governance should also be addressed.<\/p>\n

Akinterinwa who was a gust on Channels Television said Nigerian government is largely centred on dishonesty and brutality.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are talking about police brutality but governance in Nigeria is largely predicated on dishonesty and brutality,\u201d he said, adding that, \u201cPeople are talking about police brutality but they are not talking about brutality of the government, he said.<\/p>\n

Going down memory lane, Akinterinwa relayed how Nigerian government had brutalised Nigerians when it called people to contribute to a housing scheme that never saw the light of the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we explain the brutality of the Federal Government of Nigeria that in 1994 advertised, asking people to request for medium low income housing? They collected money from Nigerians and in 2020 they have not provided housing, they have not refunded anybody and so when they are talking about brutality, it is not just police brutality, but dishonesty.<\/p>

\r\n
Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

\u201cNow when we come to the current protest, I said there is no need for protest if the government has been very honest. It dates back, it is not only about Buhari but it is necessary to put an end to brutality in political governance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He however decried the unnecessary violent nature of the protest carried out by miscreants. \u201cWhat is not necessary right now is the violent character of the protest. In the last two weeks, the protests have been largely peaceful, the violence is not from the protestants but the government\u2019s failure to give protection like the 1999 constitution of Nigeria as amended has stipulated, how can thugs infiltrate them if there was protection?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf security people have been there, there wouldn\u2019t have been violence. Virtually every Nigerian whether you are among the protesters or not, everybody is in support. Most Nigerians are actually in their support. Not only the protesters on the road but virtually every Nigerian are in support of the peaceful protest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director General of the Bolytag Centre for International Diplomacy and Strategic Studies, Professor Bola Akinterinwa has said that apart from agitating against police brutality in Nigeria, brutality in governance should also be addressed. Akinterinwa who was a gust on Channels Television said Nigerian government is largely centred on dishonesty and brutality. \u201cPeople are talking about …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":44010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7642,5354,3366,2172],"coauthors":[2393],"class_list":["post-44008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-akinterinwa","tag-brutality","tag-endsars","tag-protest"],"yoast_head":"\nApart From Police Brutality, Authorities Should Address Government Brutality-Akinterinwa - National Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Director General of the BOLYTAG Centre for International Diplomacy and Strategic Studies, Professor Bola Akinterinwa has said that apart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apart From Police Brutality, Authorities Should Address Government Brutality-Akinterinwa - National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Director General of the BOLYTAG Centre for International Diplomacy and Strategic Studies, Professor Bola Akinterinwa has said that apart\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-20T19:47:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-20T19:55:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Akinterinwa.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dayo Emmanuel\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/\",\"name\":\"National Wire\",\"description\":\"About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Akinterinwa.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Akinterinwa.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":406,\"caption\":\"Akinterinwa\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/\",\"name\":\"Apart From Police Brutality, Authorities Should Address Government Brutality-Akinterinwa - National Wire\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-20T19:47:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-20T19:55:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/806673c5851717dc3067b1a46a6c060f\"},\"description\":\"Director General of the BOLYTAG Centre for International Diplomacy and Strategic Studies, Professor Bola Akinterinwa has said that apart\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Apart From Police Brutality, Authorities Should Address Government Brutality-Akinterinwa\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/806673c5851717dc3067b1a46a6c060f\",\"name\":\"Dayo Emmanuel\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/author\/dayo\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Apart From Police Brutality, Authorities Should Address Government Brutality-Akinterinwa - National Wire","description":"Director General of the BOLYTAG Centre for International Diplomacy and Strategic Studies, Professor Bola Akinterinwa has said that apart","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Apart From Police Brutality, Authorities Should Address Government Brutality-Akinterinwa - National Wire","og_description":"Director General of the BOLYTAG Centre for International Diplomacy and Strategic Studies, Professor Bola Akinterinwa has said that apart","og_url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/","og_site_name":"National Wire","article_published_time":"2020-10-20T19:47:40+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-10-20T19:55:09+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":406,"url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Akinterinwa.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dayo Emmanuel","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/","name":"National Wire","description":"About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Akinterinwa.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Akinterinwa.jpg","width":640,"height":406,"caption":"Akinterinwa"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/","name":"Apart From Police Brutality, Authorities Should Address Government Brutality-Akinterinwa - National Wire","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2020-10-20T19:47:40+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-20T19:55:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/806673c5851717dc3067b1a46a6c060f"},"description":"Director General of the BOLYTAG Centre for International Diplomacy and Strategic Studies, Professor Bola Akinterinwa has said that apart","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/apart-from-police-brutality-authorities-should-address-government-brutality-akinterinwa\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Apart From Police Brutality, Authorities Should Address Government Brutality-Akinterinwa"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/806673c5851717dc3067b1a46a6c060f","name":"Dayo Emmanuel","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/author\/dayo\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44012,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44008\/revisions\/44012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44008"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=44008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}