The Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase has disclosed that an estimated 90,000 police officers lost their lives since Boko Haram insurgency started four years ago.

Arase made this known to journalists shortly after addressing men and officers at the police command headquarters in Sokoto, the Sokoto State capital.

Revealing that the police had a record of about 90,000 widows who lost their husbands since the insurgency began in the North-east, he stressed that the Nigeria Police Force had initiated a scheme to cater for the family of officers who lost their lives while on duty in the North-east.


The IGP disclosed that a scholarship scheme had been set up to take care of the children of slain officers.

“We have incorporated a scholarship scheme for the children of our officers who lost their lives in the North-east. This is to ensure that they continue with their studies so as to enable them achieve their potential,” he stated.

Arase noted that the total number of men and officers in the police force were currently inadequate to effectively protect the lives and property of the citizens.

In view of this, he posited that efforts were being made to recruit more personnel to further enhance the activities of the police in crime prevention and boosting security.


He stated that the police in conjunction with the United Nations Habitat were making arrangements to build 25,000 houses for officers, inspectors and rank and file across Nigeria.

The police boss said this was part of efforts to provide housing for men and officers of the police so that they would have a place to live after retirement.

While reiterating his commitment to the welfare of men and officers, Arase charged them to rededicate themselves to their duties by shunning corruption.

“It is true that our numeric strength is not sufficient but we are going to bring in more people. What I am emphasising is that every Nigerian should be security conscious, and that is the most important thing,” he said.

Arase further declared that President Muhammadu Buhari was determined to address the problems of the Nigeria Police Force.

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You mean we lost 90,000 of those our fiendish "friends"?

I thought Boko Haram's total kill is around 30000; how did 90000 come up?

End time

rip

What's i.g doing about it?
Only to report?

Jonathan sef

Chai,,, rip naija heroes

Hmm... Haba!!
Bet why So you mean they've killed that much?


So how many go kon be civilian casualty?

Make una fear God oh! All these rubbish go only dey boost bh ego na.

And d country is stil galivanting about lik dey dnt kno dey are @ war. 90,000 soldiers...oh goodness!

B

Uchekwu!!!

chai!

O ga ooo...

Na to call on God to protect us remain.

Buhari do something! This wasn't what u promised us.

90,000 officers? Apart from the innocent civilians being killed daily.

That is serious oo



But how come the recruitment rate has not met the lose.

Make I no talk anything sha, If it was in the 60s, dem for use blockade kill everybody in NE.....bt since they can't boko is whooping their asses upandan.

How many army own go be?

I doubt the figures.

...I once heard that the killings were unstructured!!
Hope we counted the structured one!
PMB killing Nigerians nwayooly

90,000 ke. How many people dey police wey 90,000 don die? I smell exaggeration...

Revealing that the police had a record of about 90,000 widows who lost their husbands since the insurgency began in the North-east, he stressed that the Nigeria Police Force had initiated a scheme to cater for the family of officers who lost their lives while on duty in the North-east.


Why use the number of widows to determine the number of officers lost?. Is it not in this same Nigeria that a man can marry up to 5 wives?. I think some of the widows married the same husband, hence their high number.

i hope the person wey dey count sabi count 123......?

Sunnycliff:
...I once heard that the killings were unstructured!!

Hope we counted the structured one!

PMB killing Nigerians nwayooly

In a hurry to make sense, you ended up saying trash. Please tell us the meaning of your last sentence or are you an alien?

See big lie from a source (IGP) that is assumed to be reliable!

Choi...90k People dey lie sha

We know many are not reported!

But this figure is unrealistic!

Or maybe he meant the number of officers hiding in IDPs!

Oga IG. This one na lie. How can you make this unfounded declaration.

Walahi this is pure exergeration

He's talking nonsense....quoting figures like an illiterate.

90000 police officers' widows. Maybe every fallen policeman married 90 wives.

See the way they just converted human lives into statistics..