Kate Osamor, member of the United Kingdom parliament, has advised Nigera to reevaluate funding for some Nigerian security offices she portrayed as "corrupt."
Talking at the parliament's discussion on the #EndSARS emergency, the MP said the government ought to rather focus on poverty mitigation programs.
She explicitly kicked against the UK-funding which prepares for previous agents of the disbanded (SARS) which she said went on notwithstanding past indictments of the crew.
TheCable had revealed that the UK prepared SARS faculty for a very long time through the CSSF-funded Nigeria Policing Program, which finished in March 2020.
Portraying the #EndSARS emergency as "regrettably serious", Osamor said the UK must look past authorizing the Nigerian government for supposed maltreatments and give nearer consideration to its funding for specific projects.
Today, we need to consider how the government responds to both the movement itself and the violent actions of the Nigerian regime,” she said.
“We must also take this opportunity to look beyond sanctions into how development funding is spent in Nigeria.
“Instead of funding corrupt security agencies and investing in projects which do not benefit ordinary Nigerians, we need a new focus on poverty relief and anti-corruption programmes.
“At the very moment in which Amnesty International had declared SARS units to have been involved in extra-judicial killings, corruption and torture, the government was using the budget to train and equip those units.”
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