The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Olatunji Disu, on Thursday backed the call by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission for the establishment of 3,000 new police stations across the country, warning that the existing security infrastructure is grossly inadequate for Nigeria’s growing population. Disu stated that the Nigeria Police Force currently operates only about 2,000 police stations nationwide, a figure he said cannot effectively serve a population of more than 200 million people.
He spoke at Infrastructure Dialogue 2026, a programme organised for entrepreneurs by Deutsche Partners Holding in Abuja, where he was represented by the Commissioner of Police in charge of Works, Obiora Oranwusi. The IGP said the scale of the country’s security infrastructure deficit requires urgent intervention through public-private partnerships, development finance institutions and capital market instruments.
Disu lamented the poor state of policing infrastructure, listing outdated communication systems, inadequate surveillance coverage, insufficient patrol vehicles, weak ICT and data systems, dilapidated police stations and barracks, limited forensic laboratories and a shortage of protective equipment among the major operational setbacks facing the police.
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According to him, insecurity remains a major threat to national development and investor confidence, especially where criminal activities disrupt critical infrastructure projects. He cited recent incidents, including the apprehension of vandals through advanced CCTV surveillance on the Third Mainland Bridge, as underscoring both the scale of the challenge and the necessity of technology-enabled policing.
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