These unfortunate incidences involving personnel of the government agency are becoming not just worrisome, in our considered opinion, but also a recurring phenomenon especially in the border areas of Katsina State where the activities of smugglers are intense.
The disturbing twist to this development is that often as this happens, authorities will respond with the usual and well-worn cliché: ‘we will get to the root of it and those found culpable will be prosecuted’. Indeed, these shootings and the resultant loss of lives or injuries therefrom, have further underscored the need to conduct psychiatric tests to ascertain the mental state of mind of most security operatives before giving them weapons.
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