Wednesday 23 January 2013

Rot in police colleges: FG institutes 8-man probe panel


















THE Federal Government, on Tuesday, set up an eight-man panel to investigate the rot in all the police training institutions in the country between 2009 and 2012, during which over N2 billion was released for the institutions.
A source at the Police Affairs Ministry said  that the committee, headed by Mr E A Bature, Director, Special Duties, Ministry of Police Affairs, was inaugurated in Abuja on Tuesday by the Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade (retd) and had one week to submit its report.

The source said the committee was expected to determine the utilisation of funds appropriated and donations received by the Nigeria Police for renovation/upgrade of the institutions in the period under review. It was gathered that the colleges got N700 million in 2009; N759.5 million in 2010; N291,946,530 in 2011 and N296,757,230 in 2012.The committee would ascertain “if the heads of the NPF formations were regularly updating the police management on the conditions of the institutions between 2009 and 2012.”

1 comment:

Rita Egwu said...

I cant wait to see what will come out of it