Senator Abdulaziz Yar’adua has stated that the Federal Government is actively engaged in increasing the recruitment of security personnel to address the escalating crime rates in the nation.
“First of all, you have to understand that we have a problem with the strength of the police and the military and other security agencies that we have.
“They cannot really police and secure this nation. You must understand that, and I know the president, His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is working on that,” he said on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
Nigeria is fighting banditry, kidnapping, oil bunkering, and a host of other crimes.
While victories have been recorded on many fronts, Senator Yar’Adua of Katsina Central lamented the number of security agencies, to which he said “If you put all of them together, they are not up to one million in a country of 220 million people.”
He claims that because of Nigeria’s large security force, criminals will still have the upper hand.