Following the unabated attacks on Christian communities in some states of the Northern Nigeria, an Abuja-based clergy, Apostle Emmanuel Atsagba-Dekor, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to as a matter of urgency direct for the recruitment of more police personnel in order to forestall future occurrences.
Apostle Atsagba-Dekor, who is the Lead Pastor, Supernatural Peoples’ Embassy, made the call during an exclusive interview with our correspondent in Lafia on Thursday.
Atsagba-Dekor lamented that the continued killing of Christians in the Northern Nigeria by bandits, particularly in Plateau, Benue and Kaduna states, are as a result of inadequate policing in rural communities, noting that most rural communities across the North have only few or no police officers at all to protect the citizens.
The Apostle, therefore, urged the federal government to prioritise the regular recruitment and deployment of police personnel to troubled areas across the country, especially in the North, in a bid to proffer a lasting solution to the killings which had continued unabated.
He said, “Christians, particularly, in places like Plateau, Benue, and Southern Kaduna are being targeted.
These are the places of genocide in which they concentrate their repeated attacks on a particular group of people, which is an attack on the Christian community.
“The police are not always there in every nook and cranny of our nation because we are under-policed. That was why the president took the initiative by directing the immediate past Inspector-General of Police to retrieve the policemen attached to VIPs because over 100,000 policemen were guarding and sleeping in VIP’s houses. If we have that high figure guarding our VIPs, then how many do we have on the streets for operations?
