Prominent activist and politician, Omoyele Sowore has blamed the security framework of Nigeria which prioritizes the allocation policemen for VIP protection over the protection of the masses for the level of insecurity in the country
Sowore made this known in a post published on his X handle where he created the connection between the high level of insecurity in the country and priority placed on VIP protection.
He posted “No fewer than 200 police officers protect a single state governor in Nigeria. Multiply that by the 36 states and the FCT, and you have over 7,000 police officers assigned solely to governors.
“When this is added to the 11,000 officers officially admitted by the illegal IGP as VIP guards, the scale of the diversion becomes clearer.”
He blamed the security framework which allows massive allocation of police personnel to protect elites as responsible for the gaps exploited by criminals to overrun the country.
“This massive allocation of armed police officers to political elites happens while communities are left undefended and public policing collapses nationwide, it is the reason terror groups are overrunning the country.
“It is a security framework designed to protect power, not the people.”
