"I will share the sentiment of professor Falola to spare the life of an unarmed ballot box snatcher but not the one, as it is always the case, who is prepared to kill and incapacitate electoral officials in order to accomplish ballot box snatching" (Salimonu Kadiri).
The order of the President to security and armed forces to summarily kill ballot box snatchers, to which Falola was responding to, did not make distinction between snatchers who are armed and those who are not.
I am not aware of any credible surveys indicating that ballot box snatchers are always armed.
Anyway, security operatives are trained to disarm and arrest suspected armed criminals. Circumstances in which such suspected criminals can be killed are well documented in their operation manuals, so, the order to kill is even unnecessary and your support for such unnecesary order, another manifestation of "my hero" syndrome.
CAO.
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