Can Nigeria's police be reformed?
In the fifth and final part of a series of articles looking at policing in Nigeria, the BBC's Andrew Walker looks at the prediction for effective police improvement:
Everyone in Nigeria has experienced the failure of the police to carry out their duty to uphold the law - from the routine "dashing" money to officers at road checkpoints and failures to investigate crimes to horrifying tales of extortion and murder.
The litanies of crimes they commit fill pages of newspapers and reports from human rights organizations.
They put a microphone in front of people in a street, and they will say one thing: "It's not as bad as it used to be."
This BBC series has exposed first-hand how the police struggle against lack of skill, poor training and equipment.
How they arbitrarily arrest and imprison people and how "shockingly common" extra-judicial capital punishment’s are.
My Reflection:
I believe that we should help the police and security there in Nigeria by offering free training sessions to secure Nigeria.For those children to feel un-secure and un-safe is not healthy for a home environment. Kids are supposed to feel safe when they see a police men walking the streets but, it seems they flee and are scared. If we do not help them then this COULD POSSIBLY become a worldwide problem and come back and bite us. Also, I think that the U.S should be less greedy unless we are in the problem. I believe that Nigeria could be a happy, safe place to grow up if the U.S helps build it back together with it's beautiful surroundings.
