Only 13,000 Police Officers deployed to tackle banditry in Nigeria, says Deji
Human rights activist Deji Adeyanju has criticized the Nigerian Police Force for deploying only 13,000 officers to combat banditry in the country amid persistent insecurity.
According to Adeyanju, just 13,000 police officers are engaged in fighting terrorist activities while over 130,000 are assigned to protect influential politicians.
He made this statement while addressing young Nigerians in a video shared on TikTok, where he noted that a young individual involved in cybercrime can command four to five policemen as aides.
Continue he said, “Let me give you a simple analogy of how doomed this country is: among the police, only 13,000 officers are engaged in fighting banditry and terrorist activities. You can verify this with the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) or through the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, while 130,000 are following influential figures around.
In the Senate and House of Representatives alone, there are 3,600 Police Officers attached to jobless senators and representatives. Why will insecurity not persist in the country?
Only in Nigeria you see one small-time fraudster who commands four or five policemen, that’s why the country is in dire straits. I apologize for the language, but the country is truly doomed, and there’s no coming back from it.
In any nation where the Police, State Security Service (SSS), and Army are subcontracted to politicians instead of serving the public, the system can never work.”
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