80% Of Police Personnel Are On ‘Body Guard’ Duty – AIG

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Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of  Zone 5, Rasheed Akintunde has decried a situation where 80% of Nigerian Police personnel are providing protection to few prominent Nigerians.

Akintunde submitted that if the situation can be reversed and the police is allowed to carry out its constitutional role of protecting all Nigerians, security situation in the country would improve.

The AIG said this while addressing officers and men of the Bayelsa state Police command on Thursday, February 8, 2018.

He is quoted by Daily Post as saying: “The remaining 80 per cent are just busy providing personal security to some `prominent people’ on guard duties.

“Every big man wants personal security, they want a number of policemen to come and secure them and their family members, instead of supporting the police to work and ensure a safer environment.

“Honourable members want police security, even Reverend Fathers, Bishops now want police security, so the remaining 20 per cent police the whole country.

“If we can redistribute policemen from some government formations and deploy them to work on their core duty, it will yield positive result.”