NIGERIAN POLICE, NOT CULPABLE IN ABUBAKAR RIMI'S DEATH?

Icheoku says Nigerians especially the northern stock should not unnecessarily blame the police for the death of Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi? Admitted his convoy ran into an armed robbery blockade en-route Kano from Nassarawa; but it is on record that they did not attack him and upon the discovery of his identity, waved him on? So why blame the police for the armed robbers who did not directly cause the death of Rimi? A 70 year old former governor Rimi, who is both diabetic and hypertensive, for all intent and purpose, died of natural causes? 70 years is a very long age in a Nigerian society where the average life expectancy is barely 55 years?Now add his very sick-health and you get a mixed bag of life-threatening condition; which the fear for his life confronted by armed robbers possibly brought immediately to a head.

Icheoku would rather the police is held responsible for incidents where their direct act or failure to intervene would have made any difference; but in this case, Abubakar Rimi was not directly harmed by the armed robbers, so blaming the police is excessive dumping on them and it is not right. Whether the late Rimi would have lived or still died if he did not "insist on making the night journey to enable him meet some commitments in Kano," despite entreaties by the Emir Hassan Ahmad of Nassarawa not to do so, is anybody's guess? But nothing is so unusual with the death of a diabetic and hypertensive, 70 year old Nigerian, who possibly is not adequately and properly medicated; and not on a regime of life-prolonging cocktails for his ailments? So Nigerians should pray for his Allah to receive him in their own paradise and allow his family to mourn their loss in peace; without unfounded blame game going the way of the police?