Former Nigeria vice-president,
Atiku Abubakar, has praised the decision of the Police Force, to withdraw its
officers from guarding private individuals and organisations in the country.
The Inspector-General of Police,
Idris Ibrahim, on Monday announced the withdrawal of the officers said to
number about 150,000.
Atiku, in a statement signed by
his media aide, Paul Ibe, said it was obvious that Nigeria had security
emergency.
“Our security forces are
overstretched. We do not have enough military and paramilitary forces to
provide security for the peace-loving people of Nigeria which is why the recent
Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State kidnapping
occurred. Their school was left unguarded’
“Asked by THISDAY on Saturday
what he would do different to prevent abduction like Dapchi, the Waziri Adamawa
had responded thus: ‘Recently, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission,
Chief Mike Okiro, revealed that 150,000 policemen are guarding various elites
and those we know as ‘big men’. If I had my way, I would have recalled all of
those 150,000 policemen who are not performing core police duties and send them
to provide security for every school in the North-East region.
“That to me would be a better use
of their time and services. We already know that Boko Haram has an agenda to
cripple Western education in Nigeria. So how could we have left those schools
unguarded? Why should the police be guarding VIPs who can afford personal
guards and leave vulnerable girls unguarded? We are spending billions of Naira
trying to encourage girls to go to school only to allow them be abducted by
terrorists,” the statement read.
Atiku also said he “welcomes the
reported new policy of reassigning these 150,000 policemen from guarding VIPs
to regular police duties especially as it relates to the much-needed protection
of schools in the Northeast and other troubled zones.”
“As Kenneth Blanchard said, none
of us is as smart as all of us. The Waziri Adamawa continues to call on the
Buhari government to be open to solutions from well-meaning Nigerians and
friends of Nigeria so we can navigate this nation away from the precipice,” the
statement concluded.
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