The Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Mohammed has revealed that some youth protested in the EndSARS protests have signified interest to join the Nigeria Police Force.
The IG said this while speaking on Channels Television’s Newsnight on Monday.
Recall that in October 2020, thousands of Nigerians marched in Lagos and other cities to demand an end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a police unit accused of extrajudicial killings and abuses through the EndSARS protests.
Speaking on the aftermath of the protest, Mohammed said, “The youths who participated in the #EndSARS and the rest of them, many of them want to join the police.
“Many of them will come and say, ‘Please, we want to join the police,’ because the service the police provide is a service of God.”
Part of the criticism levied against the Nigeria Police Force is that the police are not well trained.
Mohammed however dismissed these claims and said that the Police are as well trained as their counterparts in other countries. They only do not have the required logistics needed to discharge their duties.
“If you put Nigerian police officers side by side with even police officers from advanced countries, give them the same logistics, you will see Nigeria police officers performing better than those that are coming from the so-called advanced countries,” he said.
“It is only in Nigeria that you have police officers that don’t have the required logistics that they need to operate, they struggle and make the society peaceful.
“When you take them out of the country to an international environment where those logistics that are required for you to do policing job are there, you will see them performing wonderfully well. That is why Nigerian police officers are claimed to be the best in the world.”
