Please Kindly Pay Attention: If you’re reading on PHOENIX, please click the “Read Original” button at the top right to view the full article.
According to a video on Arise News, on Tuesday June 8, 2026, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, President of the African School of Governance in Kigali, Rwanda, exposed a staggering misallocation within Nigeria’s police force, revealing that roughly one third of the country’s entire police strength is dedicated not to protecting ordinary citizens but to guarding a privileged few, a fact he described as a fundamental indictment of Nigeria’s national security priorities.
Speaking on Arise Prime Time with anchor Charles, Moghalu, a lawyer, political economist, and former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, argued that Nigeria’s security failures are not only structural and constitutional but also deeply practical.
He pointed to the sheer inadequacy of the country’s policing numbers as evidence that no serious national security strategy is truly in place.
In his words, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu said, “When I did what you were talking about, I talked about not less than a million policemen. Redeploy people to the police force. That’s where the real crisis is.
“A lot of people are jobless. They will sign up to enter the police if you pay them decently and train them. And out of that 300,000 about 100,000 of them are guarding VIPs until very recently,” he said.
Moghalu argued that Nigeria has the human resource potential to dramatically expand its police force.
With high levels of unemployment across the country, he said young Nigerians are ready and willing to serve if offered decent pay, proper training, and dignified conditions.
He proposed that redeployment from redundant public service roles and active recruitment could push the police force toward the one million mark he considers the minimum for a country of Nigeria’s size and complexity.
The professor stressed that without this kind of bold structural reform in policing, combined with constitutional redesign and the building of genuine nationhood, all talk of economic reform and investment attraction remains hollow. Security, he maintained, is the foundation upon which every other national ambition must rest.
