Nigeria 🇳🇬 lacks adequate policed, says el-Rufai

The governor said Nigeria lacked sustainable national planning policy capable of helping its development.

He added that it was important to ensure that the Federal Character policy did not become an enemy of merit in Nigeria.

El-Rufai said, "It is obvious that Nigeria is severely under-policed, and will require more personnel, intelligence assets, better training, technology and equipment for its security agencies for the country to be a credible guarantor of security.

Even if these were to be available, it is also debatable whether a single centralised policing system, structure and staffing for 200 million citizens is viable in a diverse, multi-lingual, multicultural and multiethnic nation like Nigeria.

To complement the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals, we must have discourse about the imperative of a project dedicated to enabling equal opportunity so that the circumstances of a citizen's birth don't determine his or her ceiling in life."

The governor added that because the country got 'easy money' from oil, it had lost initiative on how to develop other sources of revenue and diversify the economy.

UCJ, UNILORIN.