The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, on Thursday, said that the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) created a vacuum in Nigeria’s effort at fighting insecurity.
He spoke at the weekly Ministerial briefing, organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He also disclosed that the morale of the personnel of the Force had remained dampened in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protest and with the recent attacks in the South-East.
He said the regular policemen and women had not been able to immediately slot into the vacuum created by the SARS disbandment even though efforts are ongoing to train them for the new role.
Alkali affirmed that the security situation stabilises most times but with pockets of problems around the country.
Usman said that the police had recorded successes against secessionists and criminals in the South-East but they could not be prosecuted and brought to justice because of the ongoing strike by Judiciary workers.
On the plan to recruit 10,000 new police, he revealed that the process had reached 70 percent, assuring that the exercise would stick to the Federal Character principle.
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