RECRUIT 50,000 POLICE MEN YEARLY

A former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has lamented that Nigeria with a population of over 200 million people doesn’t have up to a million policemen, suggesting the recruiting of about 50,000 policemen every year.

Shekarau speaking on National TV, spoke on the heels of the consideration of the federal and state governments to create state police to tackle the rising insecurity in the country.

He said, former president Buhari promised to recruit 10,000 every year.

However he said the committee he headed in the Senate was in charge of pension, and from the police pension record, on the average every year, 5,000 policemen leave the service either by death, retirement or whatever means.

He said there is no way 300,000 policemen would police the whole of Nigeria’s territory as the number is inadequate. According to Shekarau, community watch, and intelligence gathering are paramount if the government is serious about stemming the scourge of insecurity.

Explaining the success of the establishment of Hisbah in Kano, the x-governor said what is needed is a police owned by the community but coordinated by the government