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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