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On Saturday, March 21, President Goodluck Jonathan and his campaign team flew out of Abuja in two aircrafts for another round of vote solicitation in Kano and neighbouring Katsina ahead of the March 28 national elections.

Four hours before the President left his home at the Presidential villa that Saturday, over 200 police officers and about a hundred soldiers were withdrawn from their beats around the nation’s capital and made to line the about 40 kilometres route to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, some standing with their rifles on their shoulders, some sitting on pavements, stones and bare ground and others snoring away in patrol cars.

The police wouldn’t say how many officers are deployed daily to patrol and secure Abuja, but residents believe the nation’s capital is under-policed, with some saying they have never seen a police officer patrol their areas.
Yet, that Saturday, hundreds of officers, who could have patrolled streets to check crimes were mandated to line Mr. Jonathan’s route for hours, a practice security experts believe routinely compromises the capital’s security and exposes residents to robbery, abductions, rape, assaults and other criminal acts.

A team of PREMIUM TIMES reporters, who monitored the president’s airport shuttle that Saturday, found that nearly all the patrol vehicles attached to the city’s police divisions and major intersections in the capital were withdrawn and used in transporting officers to locations along the major expressway from the State House to the presidential wing of the airport.

The team counted at least 40 police patrol vehicles parked along the expressway from the Bolingo Hotel junction up to the Presidential wing entrance of the Airport.

Each vehicle had at least five well armed police officers.
That was aside the numerous other police officers stationed along the route, without vehicles by their side.
The team’s conservative estimate suggested that at least 200 police officers were withdrawn from the city centre to guard the expressway that day.
Presidency insiders say that practice is routine, and that there is no plan to review it.

Apart from the policemen, the reporters also saw troops from the Guard Brigade in some strategic locations along the route, especially by the several suburb localities.

“We saw at least one armoured personnel carrier with some soldiers near the intersection leading to Kuje Area Council before the Airport gate,” one reporter said.
Analysts believe it costs Nigeria several millions of naira whenever the President shuttles to airports.

The numerous vehicles lining the expressway and the ones on the president’s convoy would have to be fueled, while the police officers on guard duty along the route are paid allowances,” a security official familiar with the working of the presidential villa told PREMIUM TIMES. “Presidential movements are expensive and that is one thing Nigerians must learn to live with.”

A resident of one pf the estates along the Abuja Airport expressway, Emmanuel Ogala, said the security official deployed to guard the president’s routes at times molest innocent civilians.

“The roads are closed for like 30 minutes before the President passes, God help you if you have an emergency and the president is traveling,” he said.

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When the President uses the airport road, thousands of travellers are forced to halt for up to 30 minutes

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Between the President’s travels and compromised security
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos recently blamed the president when armed robbers attacked residents of Lekki Peninsula on March 12, killing six.

Mr. Fashola said police officers who would have helped in repelling the bank robbery were deployed to protect Mr. Jonathan when he visited the state that day, an argument the presidency described as unintelligent and irresponsible.

“Perhaps what would be would have been, but it’s sad to see all our security personnel, all our security vehicles deployed to protect one man,” said Mr. Fashola, who spoke at an event, An Evening with Buhari and Osinbajo, in Lagos.

“All the vehicles we bought for the police were stationed to receive the President in Lagos. Those policemen have children and tonight their mothers will have to explain to them why daddy is not coming home.”

The presidency however described Mr. Fashola’s statement as “grossly and utterly irresponsible.”
“We expect that a man of his status, who is the Governor of a state should speak more responsibly,” the presidency said in the statement.

“It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever that the entire police formation in a state would be deployed to protect the president of Nigeria.

“The visit of the President (to) any part of the country does not necessitate the depletion of the police force active in that particular state or its environment.”

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Security forces will strengthen the Airport security. Thank you for mentioning.

That pic is not Abuja.

Btw how does this "change" the fact that APC is now dead and buried in Rivers?

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1. Ivorian Flag in the background

2. Plate numbers on vehicles are not Nigerian

3. Billboard to the left in french!

4. Broad boulevard design is common with Francophone countries.

5. This is actually a presidential motorcade of Jonathan visiting Ivory Coast!

Osogbo Tajudeens can lie![/size]

Here is the President with the Ivorian President



And here is the link to the original picture posted by the lying Tajudeen marafarker OP http://www..com/talk/?action=gallery;sa=view;id=25835

The poster above me said thats not Abuja when Garki is on one of the direction board.
GBTYO, you should have used GOATY as ur moniker cos you have no sense of decorum. Shut up when you have nothing reasonable to type.

APC shills have now been mobolized accross osogbo

GEJ till Amaechi drops the broom

Sometimes people forget that Goodluck Jonathan is the president of the federal republic of Nigeria the African power of coutse he deserves all security details and procedures he is a president for crying out loud

What a story. You must ve been very busy.

GBTYO:
That pic is not Abuja.

Btw how does this "change" the fact that APC is now dead and buried in Rivers?

If you have nothing sensible to type just save your hard earned MB. Its apparent you have never set foot in ABJ.

These are evident challenges the government need to seriously look into. Not like this government care anyway.

ozoigbondu:
Sometimes people forget that Goodluck Jonathan is the president of the federal republic of Nigeria the African power of coutse he deserves all security details and procedures he is a president for crying out loud

Oh really? and the Millions of people that voted him into office don't deserve "all" security detail and procedures abi? so Typical

OluBendel:


Oh really? and the Millions of people that voted him into office don't deserve "all" security detail and procedures abi? so Typical

Explains the reason why the Lekki robbery was a success. The PDP mentality of only GEJ and party bigwigs are important has brought badluck to Nigerians from the NE to the SW.

Fashola is a very intelligent man and had pointed if out succrinctly. GEJ's time of impunity is up.

cc: Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Maclatunji, Obinoscopy, OAM4J

That first picture... THIS IS NOT ABUJA!!!

All na propaganda... Police no release any number but you don already release.. Na you count the number of police? Chain!!!

K

Some people have been programmed to only see the negative part of life , thanks to APC and their brain dead ideology !

CHANGe al da WAY!!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile Buhari has absconded since hearing of the word "debate"

Pls 28 move faster Abeg! let all this stories end

It the police can distrupt traffic when expatriates working with oil firms in Port Harcourt are being conveyed to and from work... Why won't I wait for my president... My president is my no 1 citizen for crying out loud.... I live in Abuja... Along the axis the president plies.... And I've never seen anything wrong with waiting... I waited yesterday... I waited today... And would wait again and again.... If you can't wait..... Ah... Relocate Na.

Same scenario played out in Lagos that gave those armed robbers easy operation, Fashola has been vindicated.

It seems the MOD has collected money from APC so he is posting crap to the frontpage. SMH! Is it every crap you see you post? This is crap news! Abeg talk important things joor

Why dis op dey lie na, i stay in abuja nd every day i see at least 3 patrol vans in ma area.
Guy abeg if u wan lie again take am easy

Many like for Fashola he pointed this out after the lekki robbery..

But the foolish tanoids will be here ranting until their family members are killed

another lie from them

Kstar1:
Why dis op dey lie na, i stay in abuja nd every day i see at least 3 patrol vans in ma area.
Guy abeg if u wan lie again take am easy

Depend on the area u stay in abuja as this is not a new thing to peeps staying around airport road.
People always pray not to be on the road whenever our president is going to the airport or coming back.........u c both policemen and soldiers at every point say from central area to the airport....the distance they occupy wont even be up to 5miles to each other.

The most annoying is stopping all moving things from passing, from cars to human being. It so annoying that you will b looking at your house across the street and you wont be able to cross the road for almost an hour all because our C-in-C who is not even at the airport want to pass.

You dare not even make attempt to cross the road cos the combine police and soldiers on the road will make u 4get ur name if u try it

He no send una one kobo