Our CorrespondentsHuman rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), said on Monday that he knew a former governor in one of the South-West states who had a killer squad. Falana, who spoke at the University of Ibadan, said the former governor’s killer squad was headed by a police officer, who was the Chief Security Officer to the then governor. He said one of those killed by the killer squad was “a World Bank expert,” but he did not name the former governor in question. I know a state governor in the South-West who once had a killer squad headed by his Chief Security Officer, a police officer. “To avoid a situation whereby abuse of police powers is decentralized, any security service established by state governments should be democratically controlled.

Source: Punch February 03, 2020 18:33 UTC