{"id":66563,"date":"2025-05-26T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66563"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:17:48","slug":"dont-hate-police-force-spokesman-appeals-to-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/26\/dont-hate-police-force-spokesman-appeals-to-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t hate Police, Force Spokesman Appeals to Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has appealed to Nigerians to stop vilifying the entire police institution over the misconduct of a few.<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi made the plea in response to a viral post by a user on X formerly Twitter, #torty_mercy, who declared, \u201cI hate the Nigerian police! I can\u2019t even say it as it is in my heart! I hate those monsters!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting on Sunday via his official Twitter handle, Adejobi urged the public to separate individual misconduct from the image of the force as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cDon\u2019t condemn the police force. Don\u2019t hate the Nigeria Police Force and its officers. You can dislike the attitudes or misconduct of a very few ones who rubbish the profession. When you meet many of the officers of the force, you will love them and appreciate the force better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging the presence of rogue elements within the system, the Force spokesman insisted they represent a tiny fraction of the personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agree that we have a few recalcitrant individuals, and these ones are very infinitesimal; and they can still be reformed to be good ambassadors of the force,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi concluded by emphasizing the importance of public cooperation in achieving meaningful reforms. \u201cWe need to collectively work together to reform the police, not to condemn the noble profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has appealed to Nigerians to stop vilifying the entire police institution over the misconduct of a few. Adejobi made the plea in response to a viral post by a user on X formerly Twitter, #torty_mercy, who declared, \u201cI hate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66565,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66563\/revisions\/66565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}