Police and officials of the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) including other stakeholders in Kwara state have blamed the nation’s security challenges on the unwillingness of Nigerians to provide useful information to security agencies on security breaches in their localities.
The stakeholders, who included the state commisssioner of Police, Mr. Tuesday Assayomo, the national chairman of PCRC, Dr. Faruq Abdullahi Mai-Yamman and the state’s PCRC chairman, Alhaji Adebayo Lawal, spoke at a one-day capacity building seminar on digital information for PCRC members in Ilorin, Kwara state capital.
Declaring the seminar opened, Kwara state commissioner of Police, Mr. Tuesday Asayamo, blamed the prevailing security breaches in the country on the failure of Nigerians to volunteer useful information that could assist the police in fighting crimes.
He said unlike in the western world where citizens provide information to Police, Nigerians “develop cold feet” in rendering information to the police.
Represented by the Assistant commissioner of Police in charge of administration, Oyeleye Adegboyega, Assayomo said : “Security problems are created by the society and the best way to tackle them is for members of the society to assist the police with useful information.
In his speech ,the National chairman of PCRC, Dr. Faruq Abdullahi Mai Yaman, charged members of the committee to “source and provide intelligence information” that would assist the police in fighting crimes.
Earlier in his address of welcome, the state chairman of PCRC, Alhaji Adebayo Lawal, said the members of the committee would continue to help the Police with useful information that would enable them carryout their duties deligently.
ALI MUHAMMAD RABIU
