State governors have enjoined the Federal
Government to recruit more Police personnel in addition to the ongoing 10,000
police recruitment exercise to check insecurity in the country.
The Chairman of Nigeria Governors
Forum (NGF) and Gov. of Ekiti, Dr Kayode Fayemi made this known at the end of a
closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja,
on Friday, NAN reports.
He disclosed that he briefed the
President on the outcome of the security committee of the National Economic
Council, adding that the committee reviewed security challenges facing the
nation.
According to him, the Federal
Government and the NGF have proposed to recruit N-Power cadets whose two-year
service will soon come to an end or youth corps members or any of the other
institutions to boost the manpower of the Nigeria Police Force.
He said both parties felt the
recruitment of 10,000 policemen to tackle the dearth of security agents in the
country was inadequate.
”As you may be aware, certain
recruitments are going on now particularly with regard to the police.
”But, we feel in our humble
opinion that 10,000 men and women are not enough to add to the police in
tackling the dearth of security agents in the country.
”That we will have to figure out
a way to increase that number either out of the NPower cadets who are coming to
the end of their service year having spent two years or youth service corps
members or any of the other institutions that will enable us to boost the
manpower of the Nigerian police force,” he said.
Fayemi revealed that Buhari
expressed satisfaction with the efforts of the governors to tackle the security
challenges in their respective states.
The governor said: ”He (President
Buhari) commended the National Economic Council (NEC) for paying special
attention to security and he also urged the NEC committee to work with the
security chiefs who have already briefed him during the security meeting
yesterday (Thursday).
“Mr President also said that
jointly we should workout the detailed modalities for the suggested date so
that it can be drafted into a plan of action.”
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