UThe Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, says officers are offering their best to ensure law and order in the country despite inadequate logistics for effective operations. He said the Nigerian police officers are better than their counterparts in advanced countries if placed under similar working conditions.

Mr. Adamu gave this assertion in an interview programme on Channels Television, saying the Nigerian police struggle to ensure a peaceful society despite its basic challenges.

He said, “If you put Nigerian police officers side by side with even police officers from advanced countries, give them the same logistics, you will see Nigeria police officers performing better than those that are coming from the so-called advanced countries.”

“It is only in Nigeria that you have police officers that don’t have the required logistics that they need to operate, they struggle and make society peaceful,” the Nigeria number one law enforcer claimed.

Also speaking on the recent #EndSARS protest that rocked major cities across the country in October 2020, Mr. Adamu claimed that many of the youth now show interest in joining the police force.

The protest initially began on social media in October with calls for the abrogation of the brutal police unit, SARS. The protest then went physical on the streets across Nigeria with youths demanding for total reform of the entire policing structure.

Mr. Adamu claimed, “The youths who participated in #EndSARS and the rest of them, many of them want to join the police.

“Many of them will come and say, ‘Please, we want to join the police,’ because the service the police provide is a service of God.”