Abugab:
If 130k policemen are deployed to unauthorized private persons how many are left for the 170 million other Nigerians?
The policemen should all be retrieved to the last and those who need security should engage private firms for that.

Immanueladebol:
Shey dz vip cant afford d services of private security agencies ni

dirtysexyjokes:
Mumu, don't you know they will use it as an avenue to extort money from motorists?

godson36:
This is what we call federal Government.... We citizen should feel that an order is giving by the president.. Either Good or Bad....

Jonathan rule for SIx years, but I don't see an order from him... He was just there without any impact....

(Oh Am sorry, he had an impact once... That was January 1, 2012 ....

Hope you remember That was during the Fuel Subsidy saga.....

Some useless parent name their child Goodluck and Jonathan then...... But now, they have taken their child to court to change their name

Barcanista,,, come out now....... Haven't u pick enough Iron sheet for today

dirtysexyjokes:
Mumu, don't you know they will use it as an avenue to extort money from motorists?

ernieboy:

I think the real question should be where does the money paid by private vip to secure police escorts go? I am aware that aprt from top ranking govt officers, other private vips pay exhorbitant fees for police excorts.

Ephemmm:
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Thrash............ All of us are Nigerians: police should not be guarding VIPs with tax payers' money.

godson36:
This is what we call federal Government.... We citizen should feel that an order is giving by the president.. Either Good or Bad....

Jonathan rule for SIx years, but I don't see an order from him... He was just there without any impact....

(Oh Am sorry, he had an impact once... That was January 1, 2012 ....

Hope you remember That was during the Fuel Subsidy saga.....

Some useless parent name their child Goodluck and Jonathan then...... But now, they have taken their child to court to change their name

Barcanista,,, come out now....... Haven't u pick enough Iron sheet for today

hazyfm:


How do u reason? With all due respect, the FG has to look into the issue of extortion, but that shouldn't be a reason to hammer this directive. Its a good one.
It has already been enforced in Lagos, I have not witnessed any case of extortion, but Govt can work on that too.

philips70:



#Bringbackbarcanista



Meanwhile we have seen and heard all these directives on the police formation too many times. Wake me up in 1yr time to see the level of compliance. As I type this, there are various heavily armed mobile policemen guarding the homes of some so called big men in my neighborhood. The police as an institution in Nigeria needs more than this cameo-like actions to restore it back to what it should be. Just go to common Ghana and see how force and paramilitary men are properly kitted and you will instantly be hungry to join one of them.

Activa:
This is a good development.

But beyond this, our police force needs to move from analogue to digital.

They must abandon archaic crime fighting techniques and upgrade to modern ways of gathering intelligence and fighting crime. Biometrics must be used and govt must support them with CCTVs.

Policemen should be well remunerated and rewarded such that bribery becomes unattractive. The erring ones must be severely punished.

The vehicle owners info should be embedded in plate numbers and retrievable easily.

The living quarters of policemen should also be upgraded while insuring their lives adequately. Their police stations too should be renovated and built to look modern.

I hope to see Naija policemen someday looking and acting like those industrious, committed and efficient ones in developed countries.

dirtysexyjokes:
Mumu, don't you know they will use it as an avenue to extort money from motorists?

godson36:
ABUJA—Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the over 130,000 police personnel attached to unauthorised persons and VIPs in the country be withdrawn and deployed to confront the security challenges, Force Headquarters, in conjunction with the Police Service Commission, PSC, is set to commence the implementation.
Consequently, “the PSC, in collaboration with the Inspector General Police, has concluded arrangements to deploy a high level monitoring team to the nation’s airports, highways and other public places to enforce the Presidential directive of immediate withdrawal of policemen from very important personalities, VIP, who are not entitled to their services”.

Chairman of PSC, Sir Mike Okiro, who confirmed this in Abuja yesterday, said: “The monitoring team will have the powers to stop VIPs on the highways, airports and so on, for confirmation of their status and that of the policemen attached to them.”

A statement by Ikechukwu Ani, Head of Information PSC, quotes Okiro as warning that “any erring VIP or policeman caught in such unauthorised beat, will be prosecuted.”

The PSC Chairman insisted that “the Commission and the leadership of the Nigeria Police Force will enforce the presidential directive to the letter, stressing that henceforth only authorised government officials and VIPs will be entitled to police security.

Continuing, Okiro noted that the nation cannot be battling with an inadequate Police Force, while majority of these scarce officers are in the service of few privileged Nigerians, who ordinarily should have no need for them.

He said the Nigeria Police will now be “structured to do its primary duties.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/withdrawal-of-officers-from-vips-police-deploy-men-to-airports-highways-to-enforce-directive/

godson36:
ABUJA—Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the over 130,000 police personnel attached to unauthorised persons and VIPs in the country be withdrawn and deployed to confront the security challenges, Force Headquarters, in conjunction with the Police Service Commission, PSC, is set to commence the implementation.
Consequently, “the PSC, in collaboration with the Inspector General Police, has concluded arrangements to deploy a high level monitoring team to the nation’s airports, highways and other public places to enforce the Presidential directive of immediate withdrawal of policemen from very important personalities, VIP, who are not entitled to their services”.

Chairman of PSC, Sir Mike Okiro, who confirmed this in Abuja yesterday, said: “The monitoring team will have the powers to stop VIPs on the highways, airports and so on, for confirmation of their status and that of the policemen attached to them.”

A statement by Ikechukwu Ani, Head of Information PSC, quotes Okiro as warning that “any erring VIP or policeman caught in such unauthorised beat, will be prosecuted.”

The PSC Chairman insisted that “the Commission and the leadership of the Nigeria Police Force will enforce the presidential directive to the letter, stressing that henceforth only authorised government officials and VIPs will be entitled to police security.

Continuing, Okiro noted that the nation cannot be battling with an inadequate Police Force, while majority of these scarce officers are in the service of few privileged Nigerians, who ordinarily should have no need for them.

He said the Nigeria Police will now be “structured to do its primary duties.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/withdrawal-of-officers-from-vips-police-deploy-men-to-airports-highways-to-enforce-directive/

Ybnm4life:
This one will only lead to high extortation by the police at each police checkpoint of citizens who ply the airport and the highways especially this policemen that has seen big monies before and were used to high standard of living and are now being to the airport and the highways..
I feel for them o

lanrei:
Unnecessary tactics why not leave those guys and try to create more jobs by widening the space for more employment in the police force..

godson36:
This is what we call federal Government.... We citizen should feel that an order is giving by the president.. Either Good or Bad....

Jonathan rule for SIx years, but I don't see an order from him... He was just there without any impact....

(Oh Am sorry, he had an impact once... That was January 1, 2012 ....

Hope you remember That was during the Fuel Subsidy saga.....

Some useless parent name their child Goodluck and Jonathan then...... But now, they have taken their child to court to change their name

Barcanista,,, come out now....... Haven't u pick enough Iron sheet for today

southcent:
..I see kidnapping being ressusitated in the country well who the hell cares if these poluthievesians are hauled away anyways