The Federal Government has urged Nigerians to stop giving ethnic colouration to criminal activities in the country.
The advice was given by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, when he received a delegation from the Executive Intelligence Management Course 14 of the National Institute for Security Studies, led by its Commandant, Ayodele Adeleke, at his office in Abuja.
Aregbesola observed that Nigerians must equate security with the global picture of a society that puts its emphasis on the dignity of man and human development, stressing further that crime is anathema to the nation.
“One thing we must all resist is the tendency of seeing crime in relation to one ethnic group or another, a criminal is a criminal no matter the ethnic group he or she belongs to,” he said.
“No ethnic group in Nigeria glorifies crime and criminality, so let us all condemn crime.
“Our morality itself makes crime an unpopular vocation.”
Aregbesola urged the NISS to develop a policy analysis that will ensure adequate reorientation of an average Nigerian to see crimes and criminality as they are.
He urged the institution to help Nigerians change the narrative of crime tied to a particular ethnic group and heating up the polity unnecessarily.
The Minister called on the philanthropist to assist the government to empower the less privileged in the society so as to help reduce the rate of poverty which he said contributes mostly to crimes and criminality in most societies of the world.
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