Ibrahim Idris, Nigerian Police Inspector-General, has described the incessant cases of kidnapping
in the country as a complex task for the police to tackle.
While speaking on the issue, Ibrahim Idris
identified shortage of police manpower and the building of schools and
houses in isolated areas as some of the factors that made kidnapping a
difficult crime to tackle by the police.
Responding to a question
about kidnapping and killings by a notorious cult called Badoo, Idris
said the police were working on improving security in the coastal areas
between Lagos and Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, by acquiring
more gunboats for patrol.
“There is a limit to what we can
do; if you go and build your house in the bush, we are talking of
personnel, you cannot put policemen in every school. If we do that, we
are going to have a problem in addressing other issues”.
Speaking
on the continued detention of an alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme
Onwuamadike, a.k.a. Evans, who had yet to be charged to court, Idris
said the police deserved “credit” for the arrest, while promising that
the suspected kidnapper would be given a fair trial.
Edited from Punch