Rivers
NOA Director Seeks Overhaul Of Police
The Director of the National Orientation Agency(NOA) in Rivers State, Mr. Andy Nweye, has called for the overhaul of the Nigeria Police.
Mr Nweye made the call during a chat with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Tuesday over developments in the country, and also supported the call for the establishment of State Police.
The NOA Director submitted that, “the Nigeria Police have not been properly equipped to combat the security problem in the country. As far as I’m concerned, the style of recruitment into the police is faulty”.
He opined that if state police is introduced it will instill community policing, “every state will be able to get the best hands such that recruitment are done openely’’, he added.
Aside that, he stressed the need to re-orientate the men of the police in order to stem the level of corruption in the system.
While calling for a concerted effort by all stakeholders to check the menace of the Boko Haram fundamentalists, he challenged the religious and traditional leaders in the Northern part of the country to preach peace orientate their subjects on the need to promote the unity of the country.
He warned that if nothing is done to curb the violence and killings in the North, the country may be heading for disintegration.
Commenting on the gradual decline of activities by NOA, Mr. Nweye blamed the situation on poor funding and change of governments over the years.
The Rivers State NOA boss contended that the federal agency is established to entrench sanity in the polity but regretted that the mandate got truncated following the political developments after the cancellation of June 12 elections in 1993.
He therefore called for a new orientation programme that will start with children from the primary to secondary school levels, “even at that it will still take upto 10 to 15 years to change the system for good”, Nweye noted.
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