...Experts say withdrawal good for public safety, but reform critical
President Bola Tinubu’s order for the withdrawal of police officers attached to Very Important Persons (VIPs) threatens to upend an opaque N108 billion-a-year economy built on the quiet deployment of state security personnel to politicians, executives, celebrities and luxury estates.
For decades, this shadow market has diverted tens of thousands of officers from frontline policing into private protection gigs that generate steady, often untraceable cash flows f
