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Published 10 March 2021
THE bizarre and lawless trend of irate mobs and criminals burning down police stations at will is turning into a national pastime. In the latest assault, a mob attacked and razed the Divisional Police Headquarters in Ihitte/Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State to protest the alleged police killing of a youth. Two police officers sustained injuries in the attack. Such awful acts, which are irritatingly advertising the country’s shambolic state, thrive ominously in many states of the federation. There is an increasing need to protect police stations from criminals and arsonists.
The public is conditioned to assume that police stations are safe from active shooter events and other threats, but reports of attacks on the police facilities have been brutal, daring and bloody. In most cases, hapless cops in the stations during the attacks were not spared. Some did not live to narrate the horrendous onslaught. Robbers, in some insta
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