The former Senate Leader, and the senator representing the Borno South Senatoial District, Ali Ndume, who is also member of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, during an interview with some journalists claimed he doesn’t support state police.
According to The Nigerian Tribune, it was reported that erstwhile Senate Chief Whip spoke with journalists last week after a retreat that was held in Kano State by his committee. He alleged the men of the Nigeria Police Force are not doing enough because they’re not being motivated.
The serving senator alleged it is only now that people hear of issues of excessive corruption in the Nigeria Police Force, and that is because they are not adequately trained, equipped, armed and motivated as they ought to be.
He said, “In my constituency, when I was chairman, army, every time they were doing recruitment, because they thought I was the chairman, more than 1,000 would troop here to Kano for recruitment. Even today, at our retreat, a young man approached me and said, ‘Police, please, help me’. And you are talking about state police.”
Further talking, he said majority of the governors in the country want state police, but they’re not paying civil servants the minimum wage of N70,000 yet.
“The truth of the matter is, let us face the problem. Let us increase police personnel. Let us train them, equip them, arm them, and motivate them, and the country will be secured,” he added.