Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, has called on the Inspector General of Police to withdraw orderlies attached to lawmakers in the National Assembly and other politicians in the country.
Ndume made this statement in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.
“I support that they should take away all their police (officers).
One Senator will be going around with 10 policemen, seven, members of House of Reps, everybody. That is for those who are mobile. Some even give security to their wives, others give security to their children. I am against that,” he said.
The Senator from Borno South Senatorial District said Nigeria, with about 300,000 policemen, does not have enough to police the country, hence, orderlies of Very Important Personalities should be withdrawn to protect the people.
“Let’s have like 2 million police, 500,000 soldiers,” he said.
He urged President Bola Tinubu to give security agencies a blank cheque and all they want in terms of funding and weapons to fight the menace of banditry, kidnapping and insurgency.
According to him, the President should empower the police to increase their manpower to two million men and the military to 500,000.
He, however, said he won’t vote for state police if it comes up in the constitution amendment process, adding that it would be abused by governors.
