Insecurity: Aremu Laments Inadequate Police Personnel

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The General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) and Vice President of the Industrial Global Union, Issa Aremu, has lamented the inadequate number of police personnel in the country.

Speaking on Tuesday at a pre-May Day lecture in Kaduna, he noted that inadequate police personnel was one of the factors responsible for the security challenges bedeviling  the country.
According to him, police personnel are grossly inadequate considering the population of Nigerians.


Aremu noted that countries with less population have more police personnel than Nigeria, stressing that there was need for  more police personnel who should be  properly equipped to be able to stand any criminal activities in the land.

He noted for instance that Egypt, with a population eight million people, has 1.5 million police personnel, while Nigeria with a population of about 200 million people,  has only 400,000 police personnel.
He said even of this number, about half are deployed to guard and serve ministers, commissioners, political office holders among others.

The union leader however called for the sacking of any security chief who fails  to ensure the protection of lives and property within his area of  jurisdiction, adding that those who performed  excellently should be promoted.

Aremu called on Nigerians workers to be united and work towards tackling the problems facing the country.

According to him, "Workers should learn to vote for their fellow workers seeking  elective positions instead of voting  politicians with  questionable characters in order to restore the country’s past glory.

“Leaders should be voted for base on what they can do for the people not where they come from.

"Our past leaders like Tafawa Balewa, a teacher, and was elected, and Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduna of Sokoto, who was an administrator and a civil servant, was also elected into sensitive positions to lead the affairs of the country and they performed excellently."

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