ABUJA—The Inspector General of Police, IGP
Solomon Arase has declared that the Nigerian
Police, has the least corrupt officers of all the
institutions in the country, even as the Police is
determined to follow up any corrupt cases before
it in accordance with constitutional provisions.

Speaking at the annual symposium during a Feast
of Barracuda organised by the National
Association of Seadogs, the Inspector General of
Police, Mr. Solomon Arase noted that the Police
had made frantic efforts in tackling corruption
even among the officers and had set in motion
machinery to fish out corrupt officers in the
force.

The IGP, who was represented by the
Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory,
Mr. Wilson Inalegwu said that the practical step to
deal with corruption was to dismantle road blocks
by Police and the establishment of Monitoring
Teams to ensure compliance across the country.

He said: “The IG said he is allergic to corruption
and since then he has taken practical steps to deal
with the issue of corruption, both the history of
corruption and perception of corruption of the
Nigeria Police Force.

“One of the first things he did was to set up the
IGP’s Monitoring Teams. First of all the decision
by the Police Management Team was to take out
roadblocks across all our highways. It was not
just to dismantle it, he set up the IGP Monitoring
Team to ensure that these directives are
enforced.”

“If you go across most of our highways now
roadblocks have been reduced to the barest
minimum, and anybody mounting roadblocks, does
that at his risk.

“Presentations are also made where Commissioners
of Police are invited to look at the situations
across the country right from the condition of
suspects in Police cells and they have a technical
platform that enable them to monitor the
behaviour and conduct of police officers on the
road as they handle suspects.

On the issue of welfare of police and
accommodation the IG met with the OC Works
across the country and they concluded to have
6,000 affordable houses for officers across the
country.

“The IG said bail is free! Help lines have been
provided where you can supply information. You
can call to inform that you went to this station
and paid this amount and I can assure you, action
will be taken. Bail is free, the monitoring teams are
going round to practically deal with those avenues
that can lead to corruption.

“The Nigeria Police has the capacity to investigate
any corrupt case under the laws, either the
Crminal Code law or the Penal Code law. The Police
has the competence and the capacity to
investigate corrupt cases.

“The Police management under Solomon Arase is
doing everything possible to eliminate corruption
and has taken practical steps leading to that.

“Once corruption cases are given to the police, the
cases must be investigated. The Police is the least
corrupt officers in every organisation because it
has an in house way of dealing with the issue of
organisation, trying officers, arresting officers
who engage in corrupt practices.

“I think you can hardly find institutions that is
like Police taking practical steps to deal with
corruption, all I want to say by way of challenge is
have confidence in the Police.”

In his own address, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria,
SAN, Mr. Paul Erokoro said that the fight against
corruption in the country will not produce any
good results with corrupt leaders on the saddle.
Erokoro declared that it should be made
compulsory for every public officer in the country
to declare his or her assets publicly as a way
tackle corruption

Delivering a paper on ‘ A New Dawn in Nigeria:
Practical steps to eliminate corruption’, Mr.
Erokoro noted that everybody in the country had
been part of of the corruption problem in the past
and had remained part of the problem at the
present time, stressing that hardly any public
officer live with his salary.

He said that corruption in the country is pervasive
and that a practical step to show that the
country is serious to fight corruption is by the
President to declare his assets publicly, then
ensures that his Ministers follow suite as well as all
public officers.

“We should lead by example and it involves people
insisting that the President should declare his
assets in public
He said that all high level officials ranging from,
President, Ministers, Legislators, CBN Governors,
Police and Customs Officers, Military Officers
should declare their assets publicly and should also
sign a statement granting permission to
banks,moth local and foreign, real estate and
investment houses to disclose any personal assets
they hold.

He further suggested that there should be
scrutiny of people’s income and withholding of aid
by international donors if the country really is
interested in fighting corruption.

He said that many attempts made to eliminate
corruption in the country had been symbolic and
half hazard as those in charge of waging
corruption war were not committed.

He maintained that if the head of any organisation
is clean, it will be difficult for those under him to
be dirty and that the President should insist that
every minister declares his assets publicly as well
as outlaw opening of foreign accounts.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/of-all-institutions-in-nigeria-police-has-least-corrupt-officers-igp/

Please don't make me laugh.

so all those roadside beggars in uniform with guns collecting bribes are not corrupt?
1st we heard stealing is not corruption....... now it's safe to say Bribery too is not corruption....... so pls tell me what is corruption?

Bwaahahahahah,

Na so craze dey start

So in other words, they need to get more corrupt ?

K

Kai! This IGP is high on Sahara Desert Weed.
With Buhari, even the police is now allergic to corruption?!
Anyway, Baba wont remove you Mr eyeservice.

Maybe the IG was drunk when he made that statement

I know you have to justify and extol the morale of your men, pls don't even offend our sense of responsibility just because you wanna keep your job....

I believe dts an ironical statement.


If otherwise, they hv 2 prove me wrong by stop collecting money by roadside,stop collecting money for bail and many other illegal tins and activities they carry out.





Police can neva be ur friend

What do you expect from him, since Buhari said Sylva is not kwaropt

Even Nyako did not steal a dime

Is this a joke or what. Police is the real definition of corruption in pidgin language. Do they mean that pidgin language is no longer accepted as a language in Nigeria?

This need to occupy front page so that people will flogging all those pot belly police officers with words.

The only less corrupt police I know is Ojukwu.

Please is there a new meaning added to Corruption in the dictionary? Because I can't phantom what am reading from that Oga Police Officer.

what?!!!!!! This man must be high on agbo leaves wtf

Sure! Since he is as corrupt as any of them. "Stealing isn't corruption"

by default every newborn child destined to be a policeman comes "pre installed" with the all new corruption suite pack v1.1.15, this awesome "humanware" ensures that every policeman or would be police man retains his affinity for lucre, the game changer in this humanware is the fact that it can predispose a policeman to corruption even without his knowing it, e.g at a check point .. a police mans hand by default will stretch out to solicit a bribe even when its a cow strolling past the check point.

i hate blatant lies

@bigunclecycs

I quite agree with him. After all they just collect only N50. Lmao.