Abba Kyari, an Assistant
Commissioner of Police and head of the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response
Team has berated the Federal Government over the poor funding of the Force.
Kyari said police officers were
poorly paid and only have access to “less than 20 per cent” of what they need
to operate properly.
The ACP, who is famous for
leading the team that arrested alleged billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudi
Onuamadike, aka Evans, stated this in a post via his Facebook to mourn a police
Sergeant who was killed by kidnappers.
Kyari, who absolved the Inspector
General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, of any blame, noted that police officers in
countries such as the Republic of Benin, Kenya and Colombia, which are poorer
than Nigeria, are better paid.
He wrote: “Google and read about
the funding of Nigeria Police and salaries, we physically get less than 20 per
cent of what we need to operate properly.
“Everything is done by managing
and out of personal sacrifice and selflessness of some officers notwithstanding
that we have an IGP that is not corrupt and have wellfare (sic) of men at heart
but Government have not given him enough funds to operate and that has being
(sic) the case for over 3 decades since President Shehu Shagari regime of the
80s where the police was well funded.
“If we would be given half of
what we need or even half of what the police in other countries are given to
run their operations and take care of their personnel Welfare(sic) u will see
wonders. A policeman in Colombia (a country not richer than us) is paid more
than 4 times what his equivalent in the Nigerian Police earns not to talk of
proper funding of their police operations because I was there September last
year and I saw it first-hand, policemen in the Benin Republic, Kenya etc are
paid better than Naija Police.”
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