I visited the camps in the state with my team and we couldn’t help but weep at what we saw in the camps. It was a pathetic situation

WHEN the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris announced that all state commands of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, had been directed to mop up illegal arms within 21 days, the optimism that greeted the news was a cautious one.

There are indications that as at March 1, no fewer than 80,450 children are currently trapped in eight Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps established by the Benue state government to cater for victims of herdsmen incursions in the state.

Also speaking on the matter, a legal luminary, Norrison I. Quakers, SAN, had this to say: “Overtime, in prosecuting the anti-corruption agenda of the Buhari led-administration, a cause for concern has always been the dreaded forces of corruption fighting back with media reports of mind-boggling revelations of criminal diversion of public funds even within the present administration despite several ongoing criminal trials of politically exposed persons, PEPs.

For instance, in the opinion of the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay, before the ACJ Act was enacted, Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, representing allegedly corrupt governors had a field day frustrating the trial process with preliminary objections.