A recent report indicates that from January to June,
2018, Nigeria is the fourth African country with high rate of crimes. Earlier report
by the National Bureau
of Statistics in Nigeria shows that a total of 134,663 cases were reported in
2017. Offences against property, person and lawful authority were reported
mostly. Infoprations further analysed the reported offences along with the
Nigerians’ knowledge seeking or interest in understanding the offences.
Analysis reveals that knowledge sought on the offences in
2017 fell within high, low and very low status. Significant knowledge was sought
on offences against lawful authority which comprised corruption and gambling than
offences against person {murder, suicide, rape and kidnapping} and offences
against property {armed robbery, theft, fraud and arson}. The low knowledge pursued
by Nigerians impacted the reporting rate of the offences against person and
property. Surprisingly, despite the high knowledge sought on the offences
against lawful authority, corruption and gambling were not reported much.
When the knowledge was
analysed along with offences against person, result shows that the knowledge contributed
51.3% of 6,956 cases reported while it made 58.5% contribution to 48,740 cases
reported under offences against property. Like the early finding for the
offences against lawful authority, high level of knowledge sought on the
offences –corruption and gambling did not translate to significant contribution.
Analysis suggests a negative movement of the knowledge with the offences.
Overall, the knowledge
on the offences against person, property and lawful authority accounted for the
43% {24,163} of the total 56,193 crimes reported during the period. This is
less than half of the total. Advanced analysis indicates that 161, 609 (62.3%)
of the total 259,406 police Nigeria had in 2017 could only handle the reported
cases. Despite the good staff strength, Nigeria was short of 3,261 police
establishments –Zonal Commands, Commands, Area Commands, Divisions, Stations,
Post and Village Post.
The
country’s National Bureau of Statistics recent report indicates presence of
5,556 police establishments in 2017.
Analysis
equally suggests
that 53.2% of the knowledge on governance and police was sufficient for
Nigerians to have confidence in the institutional framework that dealt with 29,895
offences out of 56,193 reported.
In the future,
Nigerians are likely to report offences when they are at low rate than high
rate, analysis reveals. For instance, when offences reached 5,000 above, police
may not receive significant reports from the citizenry.
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