These are indeed trying times for men of the Nigeria Police. The police, whose primary assignment is to protect lives and property, have continued to pay the supreme price for the job they enlisted in.
Since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, Nigeria has lost a huge number of policemen and so
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