The overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday, has warned leaders in the country against treating Nigerians as garbage, or risk facing God's anger.
Bakare who made the statement in reaction to the #EndSARS protest across the country, also commended how Nigerians from different walks of life came out to reject “harassment, humiliation, and the coldbIooded murder of their fellow citizens”.
He also stressed the need to work towards a more holistic and fundamental reconception of the security architecture on the journey to national rebirth. He noted that it was impossible to police a people without their cooperation while their cooperation cannot be obtained for a tactical unit they no longer trust.
According to him, it was evident that SARS was created with noble anti-robbery intentions, “the grave irony of SARS is that it has become a grotesque embodiment of the problem it was created to solve and the tail is now wagging the dog.”
“I recognise this movement for what it is: a wholesale rejection of the barrage of needless frustrations and degradations that define the Nigerian experience.
“You simply cannot police people without their cooperation, and you cannot obtain the cooperation of the people for a tactical unit they no longer trust.
“We must find a balance between retaining the anti-robbery intention and re-evaluating the identity of the vehicle by first expelling and prosecuting the criminal elements among the rank and file and the leadership,” he said.
He warned Nigeria’s leaders who are dispossessing the citizens of their rights to desist from doing so or face the God’s judgment.
“There is a threshold of decency below which no human being must fall, and I reject any status quo where citizens become disposable or the right to life becomes negotiable," he added.