₦airaland Forum

@ Naijaway: I wish to disagree a little with your position on how the situation should be solved though with due respect to your opinions, how do you expect a man who is not properly encouraged and motivated to listen to whatever training you are given or how will he use the so called suphisticated weapon you are purchasing? I think the reform should be wholistic in nature but I suggest that their morals should be boosted first. Why do many Nigeria want to work in an Oil companies and Banks today? Is it because of the Long working hours or the risk of kidnapping or the danger attached to exploiration? I think when you look at the welfare you will not consider the risk and the stress you give to the job. Back to Police, if we are able to guarantee our Officers that; if you die while in active service your family will be adequately compensated and taking care off, anybody then can go ahead and put his life in danger bc he knows that his death will not be in vain and his family will not suffer. Why do you think that people are enlisting everyday to be a suicide bomber in Iraq or world over today? I guess the welfare package in encouraging but in Nigeria, the so called "take home" will not follow you to the road how much more your home because you must settle your last monthsssssss debts. As a lawyer I have had reason to interact and relate with Police and I know what I am talking about. On their response to distress call, we need to pity them at time all still boarder on availability of vehicle, manpower and weapons. You may be suprised to see that even the Police station you are calling may not have any single vehicles, few Officers attached to the stations who are not on duty or gone for some other assignments while the police attached to some of our govt official and their cronies are in many cases more than the ones attached to a whole Police station. How many Policemen and SSS are attached to the Governors of a state alone? How many do you think Adedibu have? We need good leadership in this country

Amaikama you need to research how much a police officer is being paid before you talk. I know you will be suprised to hear that a Corporal is paid 7000 naira monthly. What do you expect a family man to do with that? Is it for feeding, transport, house rent or what? Imagine the Speaker of the House spending over six hundred million naira on renovation of a house alone. How much is the annual budget of the Police force. When you get to some Police stations you will not see a single vehicle while govrnment official have over 2o cars for their use. I think we have priority problem in this country.

Road safety may be doing well without gun as they dont even need a gun to do thier Job. Eve at that they also have their own peculiar problems.

As for whether one is speculating the contract sum of Ehindero is not an issue here at they beside every rumour there are some elements of truth, even if the houses are 20,000 where did he get the money from? i know he will say that it is from private business as all of us are fools in Nigeria, may be they tot we dont know that the constitution forbid any civil servant from engaging in a private bussiness.

Like somebody rightly said, the police problem is leadership, if you donate any good vehicles now to the Police, the senior officers will convert them to their wives and children use while police station does not have even a common motorcycle. Have you not observed how neat the senior police officers vehicles are and how many is attached to one single senior officer.

If you are unfortunate to get arrested and detained in any of the police stations' cell, you can only imagine to compare it with the discription of hell fire you read in the holy books, no food, no beddings. no nothing, to even take your statement you have to provide money for biro and papers in some police stations even though these monies are budgeted and released every year.

I think our concern here should be to see how we can help salvage our society and help the junior officers to have a better police force in Nigeria.

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Nigerian Police Force is Under-Equipped, Underfunded: The Need For Urgent Rescue. A visit to any Police barrack or station in the country today will show you what unsecure state called Nigeria we live in. No good vehicle to move with to combat robbers, the weapons are glorified village hunters guns, some of their uniforms are only better compared with rags, the monthly take home can only buy you Ice cream at Tantaliser, No accomodation, No! No encouragement.

These are the men that often dont sleep in thier homes but in the cold daily in a bid to protect lives and property, just imagine the cold/rain outside without jacket to cover up not to talk of tourchlight to light their way to work. What will they use to combat robbers evn when the batten given to then has broken. How do a police officer that does not have a good gun will combat robbers that are "full loaded". No wonder they are killed everyday and little or nothing is done to compesate the families.

No wonder the poor Police officer choose the option collecting "tolls" to survive. At least since he does not have good weapon to combat Armed Robber at least with batten or nothing you can arrest innocent ladies that appears to you to have dressed indecently, a "yuppy guy that wear earing or plait his hair or get involvd in civil matter that does not concern you. (Though Not Justified)

Please let us discuss it, what must we do to "arrest" this situation, what should the government do to help the police from recruiting, training, equipping, encouraging or motivation, ? Our men can do better if encouraged.

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