Nigeria Police need reforms, says Obasanjo

…Nigeria under-policed, ex-President declares

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NIGERIA: FORMER President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has stressed the need for reformation in the Nigeria Police Force, just as he stated that the country was under-policed.

Similarly, the ex-President, who spoke when he received the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, at his Presidential Hilltop, Abeokuta residence, emphasised the need for adequate community policing.

He expressed displeasure at indiscriminate posting of policemen as orderlies, saying the development has not helped the country.

Obasanjo praised Arase on his leadership style of policing, saying that under him the police have been doing it best to bring back its lost glory.

“But, the truth of the situation is that we are grossly under policed in the country,” the former president whose regime jailed ex-police boss, Tafa Balogun for corruption, said.

Arase, who was accompanied on the visit by other police chiefs, told Obasanjo that he visited the state to monitor the security arrangements on ground to ensure hitch-free burial of the late Chief (Mrs) Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo.

Arase further informed Obasanjo that while he was on his way to Ikenne, he thought that “as a father, we need to come down and say hello to you sir.”
The police boss also visited Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and told the governor that the federal and the state needed to work together in order to curb crimes in all nooks and crannies of the country.

He praised Amosun administration for supporting the police force in the state and promised that the police would collaborate with his administration on security.