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How Buhari caused the rot in Nigeria Police –Oba Akiolu
The Oba of Lagos and a retired Assistant Inspector – General of Police, Rilwan Akiolu, on Friday blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the rot the Nigerian Police has been enmeshed in.
He explained that Buhari’s regime as a military leader between 1983 and 1985, on the suspicion that there was a conspiracy in the Police Force against the regime, refused to fund the police, hence the genesis of the problem in the Force today.
Akiolu has therefore called on Buhari to try and confront the myriad of challenges stopping the NPF from functioning effectively now that he has returned to power as a democrat.
The Oba of Lagos stated this during a seminar in Lagos, entitled “Providing Strategic Solutions to Emergent Security Challenges: The Essentials of Synergy Amongst Security Agencies and Civil Populace.”
The seminar was put together by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
Akiolu said, “The military killed the efficiency and effectiveness of the Nigeria Police Force. The problem of the police started with Buhari in 1984 when he was Head of State. They said (Sunday) Adewusi wanted to take over the government. I explained to them that it was not possible at all.
“There was a meeting sometime ago in Abuja where all of us were summoned. I was very happy when Buhari told us that 10,000 policemen would be recruited for efficiency and effectiveness of the Nigeria Police Force.”
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Akiolu further said that he had also in 1997, advised a former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, on the importance of creating enough police stations on expressways to take care of highway robberies.
“What he (Abubakar) told me was that ‘Commissioner, do you want me to commit all the resources of the government to the police alone?’”
Some of the problems besetting NPF over the years have been poor training and funding. Many blame this as the reason some officers of the force engage in unwholesome practices.
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