Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, a former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, says politicians are responsible for the activities of bandits terrorising the country.<\/p>\n
Tsav told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Makurdi that banditry and most cases of insecurity occurring in the country were created by politicians.<\/p>\n
He said most politicians knew exactly who the bandits were and why they were carrying out such activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cBanditry and insecurity are created by politicians and the politicians know who the bandits are. They know why these people are doing this.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to appeal to our political class to have a change of heart and cooperate with security agencies to reduce criminality in the land.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the police are courageous enough to search houses and monitor activities of politicians, you will see what they will recover from them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Tsav added that increased level of corruption and porous borders had also contributed in the ongoing security challenge as most arms were smuggled into the country through the borders.<\/p>\n
He therefore advised the Federal Government to embark on massive employment of security personnel as this would mop up most of the unemployed youths from the streets and reduce criminality in the country.<\/p>\n
According to him, security agencies, especially the police, lack manpower to handle the incessant security breaches in the country as most of the ones in the service were currently attached to politicians.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the police service, for instance, we have few policemen and most of them are attached to politicians. In fact, the government should reduce salary of the legislature to fund the new intake.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is dangerous to attach a police officer to stay with a politician for more than two years because the moment they stay long with them they become very loyal to them instead of the Nigeria police force,\u201d said the ex-police commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, a former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, says politicians are responsible for the activities of bandits terrorising the country. Tsav told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Makurdi that banditry and most cases of insecurity occurring in the country were created by politicians. He said most politicians knew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[591,363,176,165],"class_list":["post-14126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bandits","tag-insecurity","tag-nan","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"\n