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Saturnalia:
Your comment should be directed to the Obidients who hurl vitriol at those who do not share their views.

Afonja101:
I don't know what men are turning to this days, this is a popular cross-dresser in Jos that has been trending. Personally i any guy like this as a gay.

Sepukku:
So where did he get his stats from to confirm that they indeed control the drug trade in Johannesburg.

Where's the stats on number of arrests. If you can point me to it I would love to review this.

Anecdotal articles do not equate to reliable statistics.

Yampotatocarrot:
Is that Obasanjo in the pix? Who's the other man please?

chudez0147:
Be joking and laughing at yourselves let the fg continue increasing prices of fuel . Joker boy!

udede:
thanks for the information but what does Supernumerary mean?

naptu2:
So much ignorance on this thread.

1) SPY policemen are not funded or paid by the government. They are funded by the organisation that they work for.

2) SPY policemen are not undercover agents. They are supernumerary policemen.

3) Nigerian policemen have not always worn black uniforms. They wore light blue uniforms until 1987.

The black uniforms make it more difficult for criminals to see them at night (just like the green uniforms of the army make it more difficult to see them in the jungle and the desert fatigues make it more difficult to see them in the desert.

THEY ARE NOT REGULAR POLICEMEN!

Dear diary, do you remember back when I was always explaining what supernumerary police was? I explained it on very many other threads as well as this one because I saw lots of funny comments. It seems like I will soon have to do the same for special constabularies.


There is a Dutch woman named Noraly Schoenmaker (aka Itchy Boots), who travels around the world on a motorcycle and she does a vlog about her travels.

She travelled through Nigeria in October. She came in from Benin Republic, travelled up to Abuja (to get a Cameroon visa) and then went from Abuja to Cameroon. Her vlog was very interesting.

She passed through a lot of checkpoints on the way and her interactions with policemen and soldiers were very interesting. Most of her interactions were positive, with the policemen and soldiers offering advice and joking with her. However, for people that don't watch her vlog, this has been overshadowed by her interaction with two special constabularies.

What are special constabularies

Community policing

There has been a long running debate in Nigeria. Some people believ that the structure of the Nigerian Police Force is wrong. They believe that it is wrong to have policemen that can be posted to any state and who live in barracks. They believe that policemen should be from the local community and live among the people (community policing), so that they'll know the community very well and know the problems in the community.

Others believe that policemen that are part of the community in that way will be biased and cannot be impartial.


Special constabulary

Professor Yemi Osinbajo believed that we should have some form of community policing and he basically championed the idea in the last administration. This led to the expansion of the Special Constabulary.

In the UK special constabulary are part-time volunteer policemen.

In Nigeria, the Special Constabulary platform was used to achieve the idea of community policing.

States were asked to nominate people to become special constables. These special constables are meant to be members of the community in which they will operate. They were given a little police training by the Nigerian Police Force and they are expected to assist regular policemen with their knowledge of the community.


It was 2 of those special constables that demanded money from Itchy Boots.

That incident backs up what I wrote on this thread some months ago. Someone advocated for community policing and said that community policemen would not be antagonistic to civilians and would not demand bribes from them. I replied that there is community policing in the United States, yet policemen are antagonistic to civilians and also demand bribes, so community policing won't solve the problem.

I have my own theory about why regular policemen were very nice to Itchy Boots, while the Special Constabularies demanded for money.

Regular policemen are more experienced and they would know that demanding money from her would get them in trouble. That would be very clear to them (note: I am not saying that there are no nice policemen. There are, but the bad eggs would also not ask Norally for money because they know that they would get in trouble).

Unfortunately many civilians see the uniformed services as an opportunity to bully people and extort money from them and I am certain that some peoole will join the Special Constabulary with that idea, yet they are not as experienced as regular policemen.

udede:
A spy police in uniform boldly write that he is a spy. Nothing wey person no-go see for this country asrearugaad. Is the IGP of Nigeria not brain dead ?
Make una no wear that nonsense near "York" for Aba or even near "hundred foot road" for Nnewi.

givedemwotowoto:
The anti-immigration and xenophobic sentiments in SA are not peculiar to Nigerians, it cuts across most of the entire African continent.

Pythagoras001:
Somebody political affiliation or bias has to be embedded in every of the person post. Create subsections in politics sections for each major political party. Someone political affiliation can be based on what they declared, based on what majority of other nairalanders think or based of his post or comment in the politics section. There is no human that is a apolitical. Everyone knows where The cnn or fox news bias is.

papyjaypaul:
As much as I dislike politicians, I love how they have sense to know what they are fighting for while the foolish masses kill themselves and their bloodline for people who dgad about them.

BigIyanga:
Let me break it down for thick-skulled folks like you.. what is the connection btw Osi’s disagreement with Finidi? What code did he break?
So he signed an agreement to be racially abused and humiliated? Are you talking about 18th century slave/master laws or 2024 labour laws in EU?
Folks like you with limited Cotonou experience display their insular views on 3d.
What laws/codes did Victor break in Napoli?
How many times was he fined?
Colomentality has even-loped your faculties

BigIyanga:
You’re still not making sense like a typical African who measures everything by money. What’s the correlation between Osimhen’s disagreement with Siasi in Naija and racism he suffered in Napoli? Did you fail logic in school? Did Siasia racially abuse Osimhen? To you, Victor standing up for himself in Napoli, is an act of insubordination to white authority ..You’re saying that he should have swallowed racism and pride for money??
Posting all the Youtube videos doesnt validate your illogical position🤷🏿‍♂️😂😂

papyjaypaul:
As much as I dislike politicians, I love how they have sense to know what they are fighting for while the foolish masses kill themselves and their bloodline for people who dgad about them.