Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians especially well- to-do individuals to support Police in tackling crimes, saying , the police are facing a difficult task.
The former president said this on Monday during the maiden meeting of the Ogun State chapter of the Eminent Peoples’ Forum, and the launching of Police Complaint Rapid Response Unit and Change Begins with Me campaign, held in Abeokuta .
According to Obasanjo for Nigeria Police to turn a new leaf and make the ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign successful, the general public must join the Police in making sure that they give them timely information to nip crime in the bud, and report misdemeanour of its personnel to the dedicated telephone numbers for the campaign.
Obasanjo who described EPF as a good initiative from the current Inspector-General of the Police, Ibrahim Idris, said policing was a collective responsibility of everyone in the society.
Obasanjo
He said, “This initiative is a very good one. The work of policing our community, local government, state and country is not the work of the police alone, it is for all of us.
“Let us all engage in helping the police to police our communities. Police have a very difficult task.
“If you want to go and get married and need security, you call the police, if your house is broken into, you call the police, if you have a quarrel with your wife, you call the police.”
In his remarks, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, said the EPF comprised critical stakeholders such as community leaders, religious leaders, traditional rulers, elder statesmen, retired senior security officers, captains of industries as well as politicians.
He also said EPF “is the brain child of the Inspector- General of Police, arguing that “the orthodox concepts which regards security as the exclusive preserve of the police and security agencies has become obsolete and moribund.”
The Commissioner of Police said they would assist the police in proffering solutions to security challenges through mediation and social control in their communities.
Iliyasu, who said there could not bé meaningful development without security, noted that the intiative would rid the country of crime and criminality.
The state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Taiwo Adeoluwa called on the police authorities in the state to continue to tackle the nagging issues of kidnapping and land grabbing by ‘omo onile.’
Amosun said his administration had reduced crime and criminality in the state by providing equipment to the police, however admitting that ‘there are still issues.’


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Same police that wee say no fuel in dier vehicle(wen I call dt thieves re in my compound), that can't I run away....thank u sir

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call who? Those useless bomboclat?

Everyone should be careful during this festive
season,I don't usually share this kind of stories
but this happened before my eyes
Yesterday at about 3pm my Neighbour called an
aboki (shoemaker) to fix her slippers,she allowed
him stay in the compound while she went back
inside to continue with what she was doing ,while
he was fixing her slippers,he added something
inside before stitching it but unfortunately for him
the landlord was upstairs watching the aboki
without the aboki's knowledge....when he was
done he called her to come take her slippers that
he had finished stitching it,she came out of her
apartment and the aboki asked her to wear it
,immediately our landlord screamed from upstairs
"don't put your leg in that slippers.
He rushed down and demanded that the aboki
should wear the slippers first but the aboki
refused ,one thing led to other and the whole
compound was alerted including myself.
We literally had to use force for him to wear the
slippers and immediately he placed his leg my
friend guess what.......
The slippers just cut because the aboki no sew
am well
Have a lovely festive period

A whole Obasanjo is begging us to call police, this man is telling us about his escapades as a shoe shiner. The thunder on that shoe is doing swearing in...

emmaak2:

Everyone should be careful during this festive
season,I don't usually share this kind of stories
but this happened before my eyes
Yesterday at about 3pm my Neighbour called an
aboki (shoemaker) to fix her slippers,she allowed
him stay in the compound while she went back
inside to continue with what she was doing ,while
he was fixing her slippers,he added something
inside before stitching it but unfortunately for him
the landlord was upstairs watching the aboki
without the aboki's knowledge....when he was
done he called her to come take her slippers that
he had finished stitching it,she came out of her
apartment and the aboki asked her to wear it
,immediately our landlord screamed from upstairs
"don't put your leg in that slippers.
He rushed down and demanded that the aboki
should wear the slippers first but the aboki
refused ,one thing led to other and the whole
compound was alerted including myself.
We literally had to use force for him to wear the
slippers and immediately he placed his leg my
friend guess what.......
The slippers just cut because the aboki no sew
am well
Have a lovely festive period

ok sir...buh instead of calling d Nigeria police, i will rather call my neighbour's dog....#nooffence

Baba may u live longer

i dont know who spit more trash this days btw this man and shoyinka

Tell your boy Buhari to give us state police.

Jesu
Blood of Satan

see who is talking. this man no dey shame at all

The police in my area are on the road this evening and every other evening collecting #100 from bus drivers, on the order of the DPO, meteeeeew

Ok

It should be vice vassal.
Plead to the police to start being our real friend and start helping us not complicating our problem

They are criminals

The Pioneer and Pillar of CORRUPTION in National Assembly in particular and the whole Nigeria in general!
Cthief Olisegun Obasnjo ... impunity & treachery personified

Why

Tell me something

I have never tried that shit

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Police is our friend

Did OBJ ( baba iyabo) said I should help the licence criminals? Nah oga ade this campaign is dead on arrival

Ok

How many people can buhari kill in Nigeria before he dies

emmaak2:

Everyone should be careful during this festive
season,I don't usually share this kind of stories
but...
Have a lovely festive period

why do you now decide to be a carrier of bad news? You must have got it from a whatsapp broadcast.

The ss and se hates apc.. .so buhari be ready to die if you force evil apc on us

rubbish

Obasanjo has spoken well. But, State Police is what we want. Let EVERY state government staff, fund, and control its own police force. Its easy to be corrupt when you don't even know the people you are suppose to protect and serve. Nigerians are just postponing the inevitable. Keep sweeping your problems underneath the carpet - it will eventually come to bite you in the a$$.

Is that our duty?

So that criminals go use innocent citizens shine abi?

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