Buhari to embark on sweeping police reforms to support community policing – APC

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is embarking on sweeping police reforms to support community policing, for the purpose of meeting the urgent need to have better and efficient policing in the country.
In a statement issued yesterday by the Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the party, John James Akpanudoedehe, APC also dismissed the claim by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Nigeria is now a failed State.
The statement titled ‘Nigeria Nowhere Close to a Failed State – APC’, said while naysayers and opposition partisans chorus their doomsday wishes for Nigeria, the country is nowhere close to becoming a failed state.
“The President Muhammadu Buhari government is not oblivious to the country’s challenges and is visibly and frontally addressing them.
“From the economy to security, it is easy to sum up Nigeria with some recent recorded security incidents and the economic downturn. However, this government has displayed the political will and capacity to contain any criminal/terrorist activity and return the economy to growth.
“President Buhari’s administration which sees the urgent need to have a better policing system for the country and is embarking on sweeping police reforms and supporting community policing, is definitely not governing a country close to becoming a failed state.
“Amid the COVID-19 induced economic slowdown, President Buhari’s administration which is stimulating the economy by preventing business collapse; supporting labour-intensive sectors such as agriculture; creating jobs through infrastructural investments in roads, rails, bridges; promoting manufacturing and local production at all levels to attain self-sufficiency in critical sectors of the economy, is definitely not governing a country close to becoming a failed state.
“President Buhari’s administration which is implementing one of the world’s largest and far-reaching social investment programmes targeting the very poor and other vulnerable groups, including women and persons living with disabilities through pro-poor spending, is definitely not governing a country close to becoming a failed state.
“Nigerians will recall the ignoble pastime of past administrations which will rather bury its head in sand and spin conspiracies in the face of insecurity and engage in voodoo economics to hoodwink Nigerians while national resources were stolen and diverted to political cronies. Those days are gone.