I Will Withdraw Police Escorts From VIPs – Tinubu

If elected president the following year, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress has pledged to reform the Nigerian Police Force to make it more effective.

He promised to relieve police officers of their duties serving as bodyguards or orderlies for Very Important Persons, adding that the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps officers would take their place.

This was contained in the manifesto exclusively obtained by The PUNCH on Friday,

The PUNCH reports that top on his priority lists of action plans was national security, economy, agriculture, power, oil and gas, transportation and education.

The 80-page document, containing multi-sectoral policy options, was tagged “Renewed Hope 2023 – Action Plan for a Better Nigeria.”

On police reform, Tinubu said:
]“We shall boost the public confidence in the Nigeria Police Force and other internal security agencies by increasing recruitment and providing high-tech, non-lethal equipment with corresponding manpower development schemes.

“Police reform will be focused on positioning the institution to better deliver on its primary duties of community policing and maintaining law and order through crime fighting and prevention.