Nigeria's Acting Inspector general of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), said Nigeria is not yet ripe for state police in spite of the renewed agitations for it.
Speaking with newsmen in Kaduna shortly after a meeting with Kaduna stakeholders on security, the acting IGP dismissed the clamour for the establishment of state police, in his words,
“You could imagine if we have a political situation, if you have a state commissioner of police controlled by the state itself”.
“What we are trying to do is going back to the drawing board, I won’t tell you what I’m doing in terms of training and strategies and methodology of fighting crime and that is why we have to come out to see things for ourselves and be able to re-plan ahead of time.
“We are doing so much and there are differences even in changing of tactics, unlike before. We are doing so much now, particularly on intelligence information. Let me also thank Nigerians in this regard because we have seen serious level of improvement in terms of reportage, in terms of giving information about crime and criminality, people have helped us in doing what we are doing”, he said.
He described as disturbing the casualty figures of policemen who lost their lives in the wake of the Boko Haram Islamic sect’s attacks on security personnel and bombings in northern parts of the country, noting that the figures of victims are still being computed by the authorities.
According to him, crisis is not a thing that the police and the citizens plan for or expect, stressing that five years ago nobody expected that Nigeria would be facing the problem of suicide bombings in any part of the country.
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