The Presidency has requested Nigerians to assist the enforcement of President Bola Tinubu’s directive on the withdrawal of police escorts from VIPs.
Particular Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, Daniel Bwala, made the decision throughout a TV interview on Sunday.
Bwala urged residents to doc and report any instances of police escorts hooked up to those that are usually not eligible, including that Nigerians ought to share “pictures or movies” of people nonetheless transferring with police regardless of the manager order.
He, nonetheless, clarified that the current directive doesn’t apply to each serving authorities official.
“There are vital individuals in authorities who will nonetheless have one type of safety or one other,” he acknowledged.
Bwala added that operatives of the State Safety Service and the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps could also be deployed for such officers.
“It could possibly be SSS, Civil Defence, and never the police who will probably be there that will help you. However police don’t have any enterprise being with you,” he famous.
He stated the directive is a part of reforms to enhance police effectivity and guarantee extra officers are deployed to public safety duties.
Tinubu had earlier directed that police personnel hooked up to VIPs be withdrawn and reassigned to core policing roles.