Nigeria, Now's the Time to Start
The report that the Nigerian Police have a 88.88% recovery rate of stolen cars is to
say the least flustering. Recovering a stolen car in Nigeria is no less insurmountable than
arresting murderers. The system is simply not set up to work. Cars and other motorized
vehicles are not registered and the inhabitants are not accounted for. In 1999, I was a
victim of car theft when my 15 year old Benz 230 E was taken by two armed men,
kidnapping me along for some distance. I did not suffer as much pain for the loss of my
car as I did in the hands of Police officers after I reported the incident. I physically
moved the file from the Ajao Estate Police Station, where I reported the case to Ikeja
for what I thought would be a superior handling. Folks at the other station had started
same quality of life as exists in the West and elsewhere. We need to make it work. You
say we can't afford it? We're losing more money; really paying more in terms of daily
human and material loss and decadence, existing in a society where there's no system.
Nigerian Police must be set up and funded to work like the Police elsewhere in
progressive countries. How can we expect the Police to deliver with the way the force
and the society are presently constituted? Nigeria is losing too much, with her national
pride going down the drains daily, ignoring this empirical truth. Nigeria it's time to wake
up!
Victor Nwora Aghadi - VNANews
The report that the Nigerian Police have a 88.88% recovery rate of stolen cars is to
say the least flustering. Recovering a stolen car in Nigeria is no less insurmountable than
arresting murderers. The system is simply not set up to work. Cars and other motorized
vehicles are not registered and the inhabitants are not accounted for. In 1999, I was a
victim of car theft when my 15 year old Benz 230 E was taken by two armed men,
kidnapping me along for some distance. I did not suffer as much pain for the loss of my
car as I did in the hands of Police officers after I reported the incident. I physically
moved the file from the Ajao Estate Police Station, where I reported the case to Ikeja
for what I thought would be a superior handling. Folks at the other station had started
same quality of life as exists in the West and elsewhere. We need to make it work. You
say we can't afford it? We're losing more money; really paying more in terms of daily
human and material loss and decadence, existing in a society where there's no system.
Nigerian Police must be set up and funded to work like the Police elsewhere in
progressive countries. How can we expect the Police to deliver with the way the force
and the society are presently constituted? Nigeria is losing too much, with her national
pride going down the drains daily, ignoring this empirical truth. Nigeria it's time to wake
up!
Victor Nwora Aghadi - VNANews
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