{"id":79253,"date":"2025-11-24T03:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79253"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:59:42","slug":"tinubu-orders-withdrawal-of-police-escorts-from-vips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/24\/tinubu-orders-withdrawal-of-police-escorts-from-vips\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Orders Withdrawal of Police Escorts From VIPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has directed the withdrawal of police officers attached to Very Important Persons (VIPs) nationwide, ordering their redeployment to core policing duties.<\/p>\n<p>The directive followed a security meeting in Abuja with service chiefs and the Director-General of the DSS.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said VIPs who require escorts will now be assigned armed protection from the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that many remote communities suffer from low police presence, stressing the need to boost policing nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Onanuga added that the President has also approved the recruitment of 30,000 new police officers and plans to upgrade training facilities in partnership with state governments.<\/p>\n<p>Top security chiefs at the meeting included the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Waidi Shaibu; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke; Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun; and DSS Director-General, Tosin Adeola Ajayi.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows public concerns over the high number of officers assigned to VIPs, leaving many communities under-policed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola President Bola Tinubu has directed the withdrawal of police officers attached to Very Important Persons (VIPs) nationwide, ordering their redeployment to core policing duties. The directive followed a security meeting in Abuja with service chiefs and the Director-General of the DSS. In a statement, the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,1724,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-insecurity","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79253","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=79253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79255,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79253\/revisions\/79255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}