Represented by the Commissioner of Police in charge of Works, Obiora Oranwusi, the IGP said the scale of the country’s security infrastructure deficit demands immediate intervention.
Nigeria’s worsening security challenges have exposed a massive infrastructure gap within the country’s policing and correctional systems, with the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, warning that the nation urgently requires 3,000 new police stations and 1000 new prisons to strengthen law enforcement and public safety.
The police chief said the existing security infrastructure is too weak to effectively serve Nigeria’s population of over 200million people, revealing that the Nigeria Police Force currently operates only about 2,000 police stations nationwide.
Disu made the remarks on Thursday at Infrastructure Dialogue 2026, a programme organised for entrepreneurs by Deutsche Partners Holding in Abuja, where he called for urgent investments through public-private partnerships, development finance institutions and capital market funding to address the growing security infrastructure crisis.
Represented by the Commissioner of Police in charge of Works, Obiora Oranwusi, the IGP said the scale of the country’s security infrastructure deficit demands immediate intervention.
