Designs to negate the recent presidential directive that police officers attached to very important personalities (VIPs) as security details should be withdrawn with immediate effect, and redeployed to core police duties to enhance the protection of the larger society, are obvious. Sadly, the culprits are officers of the Police Force itself, members of Nigeria’s political establishment, and the so-called celebrities. This is certainly outrageous.
The order, given on 23 November during President Bola Tinubu’s meeting with service chiefs, was followed by the declaration of a state of emergency on national security. Any weak enforcement of this order will give a fillip to the escalating insecurity in the country.
Following the kidnapping rampage of bandits that involved over 400 citizens, mostly students and teachers from schools in Kebbi and Niger states, as well as worshippers in a church in Kwara State, within a week in November, anxiety and confusion enveloped the nation.
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