A former Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro (retd.), and ex-Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor (retd.), on Tuesday blamed Nigeria’s worsening security challenges on inadequate funding, poor equipment and gaps in investment in the nation’s security architecture.
They made the assertion while speaking at the First Daily National Dialogue on Security held in Abuja.
Describing the police as the lead agency for internal security, the former police chief said the government’s failure to properly arm and support the force had undermined its capacity to effectively tackle crime.
“The government, I would say, is contributing to insecurity itself.
“The police is the lead agency for internal security. But the government deliberately, I say deliberately, without any fear of contradiction, disarmed the police. The result is insecurity,” he said.
He lamented that the police had been left to confront increasingly sophisticated criminal groups without the equipment needed to perform their
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