{"id":71205,"date":"2025-07-22T11:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71205"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:26:09","slug":"divert-military-funds-to-police-cut-terrorism-by-70-sowore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/22\/divert-military-funds-to-police-cut-terrorism-by-70-sowore\/","title":{"rendered":"Redirect Military Funds to Police, End Terrorism by 70% -Sowore by 70% \u2013 Sowore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has stated that Nigeria can reduce terrorism by almost 70% if the Federal Government redirects a portion of the military budget toward internal policing and security sector reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday during Channels Television\u2019s The Morning Brief, Sowore argued that mismanaged, stolen, or even properly allocated military funds could make a far greater impact if channeled into police welfare and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that cost to the military that is stolen, filtered, or mismanaged\u2014or properly spent where they claimed to\u2014if you invest that in internal policing in a year, you will get a reduction in terrorism by almost 70 per cent,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cYou get a reduction in kidnapping by almost 80 per cent, and you get almost zero per cent in crime rate all over the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sowore lamented the poor condition of Nigeria\u2019s internal security, pointing out that the police force remains underfunded, underpaid, and undervalued, despite playing a frontline role in maintaining peace and order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria\u2019s security architecture is broken,\u201d he stated, criticizing what he described as misplaced priorities in national budgeting.<br \/>\n\u201cAn average senator takes 30 to 50 million naira, and a police officer\u2014who doesn\u2019t go to sleep, who guards your borders, houses, parties, children\u2019s schools, and to whom you report whenever anything happens\u2014is getting paid nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came a day after joining retired police officers in a peaceful protest in Abuja, where they demanded improved welfare and an exit from the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba &nbsp; Human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has stated that Nigeria can reduce terrorism by almost 70% if the Federal Government redirects a portion of the military budget toward internal policing and security sector reforms. Speaking on Tuesday during Channels Television\u2019s The Morning Brief, Sowore argued that mismanaged, stolen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71205","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71274,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71205\/revisions\/71274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}