The Vigilante Group of Nigeria on Thursday said that the current arrangement and structures in the Nigeria Police cannot adequately tackle the security challenges facing the country.
This assertion was contained in a statement the group gave in Abuja on Thursday, saying that it is through effective collaboration and partnership between the group and the police that such security challenges could be adequately addressed.
Members of the group, numbering about 50, on Thursday attended the plenary session of the House of Representatives to witness the consideration and passage of the bill seeking to establish the outfit.
However, consideration of the report was along five other legislations stepped down until next week.
In the statement jointly signed by the VGN Commander General, Ali Sokoto, and the Chief of Staff of VGN, Navy Capt A.B. Umar (rtd), VGN said the police also needed cooperation of local communities to be able to tackle security challenges such as kidnapping and terrorism.
“There is no denying the fact that the level of crime has changed in Nigeria, from drugs to rape, gang violence to murder, burglary to armed robbery and kidnapping to terrorism.
“The nature of crimes like kidnapping and terrorism cannot be adequately tackled by the present conventional police structures and modus operandi without the cooperation of local community.
“Even the concept of centralized management of the police force has only helped to isolate it further from the public they are serving. In many cases, police officers are posted far away from their localities and are therefore ‘strangers’ in the community where they are serving”, VGN said.
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