President Bola Tinubu has given indication that he is considering the establishment of Marine Police, Forest Guards and a Special Force for Solid Minerals Communities in a bid to arrest the current wave of insecurity in the country.
This was made known on Saturday in a post by Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy on his verified X account @aonanuga1956.
Onanuga said President Tinubu, at a meeting in Abuja on Friday, with governors of the All Progressives Congress revealed his plans to rejig Nigeria’s security architecture.
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President Tinubu mulls marine police, solid mineral police, better trained forest guards
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at a meeting in Abuja Friday with governors of the All Progressives Congress revealed his plans to rejig Nigeria’s security architecture.
He mentioned three brand new police formations, to augment the regular police.
He said the deployment of forest guards was being considered, with better training, modern technological gadgets and weapons to strengthen security.
He said the solid mineral and marine economic sectors will also be secured by special police.
“We have a big marine economy, and I do not see why we should not have the marine police.
“We will have the same in solid minerals to keep the scavengers away. I am ready to invest in security”.
President Tinubu also revealed his plans to stock the nation’s mineral resources, in reserve.
“We will buy our own minerals and keep them in reserves, especially gold, which will be effective in our foreign exchange reserve,’’ the President told the governors.
