Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mr. Mike Okiro, has said more than 150,000 policemen are attached to VIPs and unauthourised persons in the country. News Agency of Nigeria reports that President Muhammadu Buhari, in 2015, directed that police personnel attached to unauthorised persons and VIPs be withdrawn and deployed to confront the security challenges in the nation. “We could not sustain the enforcement of the order on the withdrawal of policemen attached to unqualified persons in the country because of lack of fund,” Okiro said. He said the number of policemen in the country was inadequate for the population, hence the request for the recruitment of more policemen. He said the issue of paucity of fund has been one of the problems hindering the recruitment of more policemen for enhanced service delivery.

Source: Punch February 11, 2018 15:11 UTC