Smart Adeyemi was in the Senate where the Police budget was passed, he knows the police structure is underfunded and understaffed.
National Assembly got N128bn to manage the affairs less 500 lawmakers, the Nigerian Police force got N441bn to look after 200m citizens.
The number of police officers Smart Adeyemi has guarding him, his family and properties across Nigeria, is more than the Policemen guarding at least 5 communities in his state.
We have a senate committee on police, how much has been released to the police force from the budget?
How much was released for equipment, technology and training. How many communities in his state are adequately manned by policemen? What is the essence of sticking with a centralised police force that leaves the rural areas exposed? The rural areas are ungoverned...
Ungoverned and neglected rural areas are natural habitats for criminals. Why are the senators afraid of pushing for decentralised police force?
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The little I understand here, House officers are on a 1 year training and they should be paid separately from the civil service scale. The civil service scale is fixed and ranked. The civil service scale is the albatross confronting the review of their renumeration / allowances.
If a house officer is on Grade Level 12 according to the civil service scale, their salaries cannot be reviewed higher than level 13, they cannot earn higher than the next level above them. The entire salary scale will need to be adjusted for that to happen.
If other perks are considered for HOs, the govt must review the allowances of other workers on the Salary scale. Civil servants on a higher salary scale will revolt and ask for a review as well because their "juniors" on the scale can't earn more. A total review must be done.
We have a large border we can't secure, extremely porous. We are surrounded by weak and poor countries. A man can walk from Mali, Niger or Chad into Nigeria with a rifle and start "catching" Nigerians like rabbit for ransome.
We have a central police system that has collapsed..
Police personnel insufficient and the command structure dead. We have large ungoverned areas in rural communities with no police presence. In these rural areas, we have poor infrastructure in that delay urgent response to crime. We have lots of internal criminals as well..
Insanity ia simply defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Some states have civil servants that take up 90% of their FAAC and IGR. Cut them to 50% and use the savings to fund a proper state police structure...
Governance is about inclusion, participation and partnership. Several years of military rule, have made a lot of Nigerians believe that "government" is an exclusive zone, an enemy. An enemy they must constantly be in battle with, they mustn't trust and they shouldn't be part of.
The most popular people since the 80s and 90s are govt antagonists. The popular radio and TV stations are those who continously attack the govt without preaching inclusion and participation. In a democracy, the govt is a reflection of the people, nothing more, nothing less.
Someone told me "Ijoba o feran wa" meaning the govt doesn't like us. I asked which govt? Who doesn't like you? Your LG chairman, your HOA member, HOR member, your senator, all the commissioners, the governor, all the ministers, the FG all woke and decided to hate you.
Lagos state records1.6m cars on its road daily according to the MOT. 227 cars per km compared to the national average of 11 cars per km. The state is built up, right of ways gone, no hope for new roads or further expansion. A PPP driven mass transit system #Transport101
Is the way forward. Out of the 1.6m cars, about 300,000 are commercial cars.
Trains are expensive so quick wins are PPP managed mass transit buses. The state doesn't need to fund it, the potential is huge. The state needs to regulate, LAMATA is the regulator not NURTW.
As a governor, I will dimension the problems
1. I need 1m people to drop their cars and embrace public transportation in few years.
2. How do they spend on fuel and car maintenance monthly?
Let's be serious for once in this country. How many hospitals did GEJ your boss build? Point at one health facility built by GEJ. Obasanjo revamped our teaching hospitals with VAMED engineering, GEJ couldn't maintain them, allowed equipment rot away in containers..
Some equipment didn't leave the ports.
Even if we want to abuse this present administration this is the second time teaching hospitals will be undergoing revamp.
- 3 state of art Diagnostics and cancer centres in LUTH, Aminu Kano and Umuahia
- NCDC PCR laboratories
- PCR laboratories in several states for virology samples
- CBN intervention fund for healthcare
- CBN healthcare research grants
- Basic Healthcare provision fund disbursed to states to revamp PHCs each state got $1.5m.
- capital projects ongoing in major teaching hospitals
Here is the budget breakdown for LUTH and UCH. The FG practically funds the hospital 100%. LUTH has a personnel cost of N8bn while UCH has N13bn. These personnel costs are 20 - 40 times the capital expenditure. This is a yearly recurrent cost sunk into salaries.
The FG also make provisions for other items, clears debts incurred by patients who are unable to pay for services, equip these hospitals and maintain the equipment.
12 years after leaving the teaching hospital, the prices haven't changed,fees have remained stagnant for 20 years
While salaries have gone up multiple times, cost of drugs, cost of equipment, cost of consumables have gone up in multiple folds.
Why should the FG incur personnel cost? 50 year old institutions that cannot pay their personnel costs..