Human rights activist Deji Adeyanju has condemned the Nigerian Police Force for allocating only 13,000 officers to tackle banditry, despite the ongoing insecurity across the country.
Adeyanju pointed out that while 13,000 officers are actively engaged in combating terrorism, over 130,000 are deployed to serve as security for high-profile politicians.
He made these remarks in a video addressed to Nigerian youths on TikTok, highlighting the concerning fact that a single individual involved in cybercrime could have four to five police officers assigned to them as aides.
Continue he said, “Let me give you a simple analogy of how doomed this country is: among the police, only 13,000 officers are engaged in fighting banditry and terrorist activities. You can verify this with the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) or through the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, while 130,000 are following influential figures around.
“In the Senate and House of Representatives alone, there are 3,600 Police Officers attached to jobless senators and representatives. Why will insecurity not persist in the country?
“Only in Nigeria you see one small-time fraudster who commands four or five policemen, that’s why the country is in dire straits. I apologize for the language, but the country is truly doomed, and there’s no coming back from it.
“In any nation where the Police, State Security Service (SSS), and Army are subcontracted to politicians instead of serving the public, the system can never work.”
(Vanguard)
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