The Federal Government yesterday set up an 11-man committee to probe the rot in Police Colleges.
The committee will also ascertain the
amount of money appropriated for the police to renovate and upgrade the
police institutions between 2009 and 2012.
Director, Special duties in the Police
Affairs Ministry is the head of the probe team raised by Police Affairs
Minister Omoniyi Olubolabe.
The committee has one week to submit its report.
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday
visited the Police College in Lagos after Channels Television exposed
the rot in the school.
Members of the committee are: Rep. of
NPF-Vice Chairman, Director, Finance and Account-Member, Director,
PID-Member, Director, PSD-Member, 3 Nos. Representatives of NPF-Member,
Legal Adviser-Member, Head of Budget Division-Member, Head of Internal
Audit-Member, Head of External Audit-Member and Secretary-PRS.
The committee’s term of reference are:
•To ascertain the amount of funds
appropriated by the Federal Government of Nigeria to the NPF for
renovations/upgrade of the Nige
ria Police Institutions between 2009 and
2012 and total donations received in the period under review.
•To examine the budget proposed/appropriated by NPF for the Training Institutions between 2009 and 2012
•To verify the utilisation of the
appropriation to the NPF for the upgrade of facilities in the following
Police Training Institutions.
•Detective College Enugu;
•PMF Training Schools Gwoza and
•Illa Oragun, ATS Training School, Nonwa Tai;
•Police Colleges Ikeja, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Oji-River, PTS Iperu.
•To ascertain if the Heads of the NPF
Formations were regularly updating the NPF Management on the conditions
of the Institutions between 2009 – 2012 and what actions were taken by
the Management of NPF sequel to such;
•To examine the design and capacity of the institutions vis-à-vis the current number of intakes;
•To examine the current condition of
infrastructure in all the NPF training institutions and make appropriate
recommendations to Government;
•To consider any other matter relevant.
Olubolade said his ministry and the police management team will address the rot in police colleges in the country without delay.
He spoke to reporters after a meeting
with Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar at the Force
Headquarters yesterday. ,The minister said the matter is of priority to
the government.
Olubolade said the meeting with the IGP
centred on how to fix the decay in police colleges and how to tackle the
rising wave of terrorism, kidnapping and other criminal activities in
the land.
The minister said: “We looked at the
training of policemen and the training institutions not only on police
colleges because solving the problem of police colleges alone is not
enough.
“We will solve the problem of police
colleges and that of other training institutions including the Police
Academy in Kano as well as the Staff College in Jos.
“Once we address those issues, we will
be making better progress. So, if you ask me, this meeting was aimed at
repositioning the police to attend to training matters. To attend to
operational matters so that this year, we will see a better policing in
Nigeria police.”
“Nigerians should expect a highly
professional police force that will stand up and face the challenges
that are confronting our nation. And to do that, I have to constantly
meet with the management team headed by the IGP who is here with me as
many times as possible.
“This is to ensure that we are on course
with our plan, to ensure that whatever we asked for to make the police
force more efficient, is given to us. It is also to ensure that we are
making progress in fighting crime, criminality and terrorism.
“Like I said, I am here to follow up on
what I have just spoken about; to interact with the IGP and his
management team, to look at lapses that may exist and how we will
surmount them because it is a joint effort and I think it is critical to
do that.
“The IGP is making some progress in certain areas and I will also have to look at them”.
Rubbish, hw can u send People who embezelled this funds 2 head the probe, what a waste of time. Send in independent panels or this is jst a script 4 Nigerians.
ReplyDeleteNigerians are totally against all these probe panels,because those who embezzled the money were selected,external probe panels should be engaged.Also,minister of police affairs is not efficient at all,we are calling on his immediate removal,what was he doing having noticed the Steve of the training college or he did not even see it at all..negligence !
ReplyDeleteWhen the news first surfaced, what did the minister do? Did he have to wait for the president to visit first to take action? The minister himself should be probed for failing in his primary duty of how policemen are made
ReplyDelete11 man panel my foot.After the panel report what next?
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ReplyDeleteInternally, Ce hw we only claimed to be religious, moral, decent, discipline, educated, learned & civilized, if we are not clearly deceiving ourselves, I challenge Nigerians in particular & the world in general dat if we are not worshippers of devil & demons then we shld prove it wrong & completely ban & with hard laws on jst some of this evil things inimical to our society causing societal menace such as hard drugs (Indian hemp, cocaine etc), hard alcoholism along the varying energy drinks & it associates etc. & capital punishment on corruption & remove impunity. Do we know hw deadly is corruption & its attendant problems? Corruption is a silent killer, fast in killing many lives in silent & an economy. Or is dia any religion or any moral value or education in support of it? Yet we acclaim to one religion or the other to ourselves or we easily said we are moral, educated, discipline & all sort. Are we been jst to ourselves? Dis the root of our problems & we shld stop round abouting it. See hw we are wronging ourselves. If it continue as it dominate & we fail or presume to get it, is den a clear indications of clear devil & demons worshipping & of all our claims dat head any society towards a critical danger zone. The reality is that no gain, no gud but jst an illusion of a mere mirage if the right thing is not done, we still be waking each time & meet reality waiting. An aggregation of the whole made the world scientists, engineers & technologists as all “other smart ways” failed to resort for making an “alternative earth” the mars habitable, have we still make a headway or has it been achieved or we already in the mars planet? & wait, we are waiting…
Rotten institution and nonsense composition of in - house committee. There should be an independent committee comprising Nigerians with credible credentials including the media.
ReplyDeletePolice affair minister has never visited d college or any police college in d cntry at all to know what channels tv brought to d notice of d whole world so he,s d one setting up d panell nd all d officers of d minstry are members? Almighty God take care of these pple once and for all.ur dayus arte numbered continue to do what u know how to do best d wrath of God is coming very soon upon u pple
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