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July 14, 2019
About five hundred thousand volunteers from across the seven hundred and seventy four local government areas of the country and the Federal Capital Territory are being arranged for the community policing programme.
This followed the proposal of the Federal Government and the thirty six state governors to recruit the N-Power volunteers for the community policing to tackle the shortage of manpower in the police.
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The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGFand Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi had after a meeting with PresidentBuhari, said plans are on to use N-power beneficiaries to kick-start communitypolicing in the country.
Speaking on the community policing, the SeniorSpecial Assistant to the President on Job Creation and Youth Employment AfolabiImoukhuede, said they have supplied data to the NGF and the Inspector Generalof Police, Mohammed Adamu, on the volunteers.
He said two batches of the N-Power programme acrossthe seven hundred and seventy four local government areas of the country areready for community policing.