Nigeria, Sept. 5 -- Last week, Nigeria lost a remarkable progressive reformer, the former Inspector General of Police, Dr Solomon Arase. He was an example of what a Nigerian police officer should be - a visionary leader who fights to bring into practice the transformative reforms the Nigeria Police Force has required for so long. He was a man of deep commitment to the big idea of instilling citizen-centric policing and human rights protection into the culture of the Nigerian Police. He was a pioneer in setting up and encouraging intelligence-led policing. Through this policy, which aimed at actualising the right to the presumption of innocence under the Constitution, he sought to humanise the police.

After his tenure as IGP, Arase contin...