Police formations across the country are groaning under poor financing – a development which further cripples the police at a time of heightened internal security challenges. For the first quarter of this year, Police Commands and formations have not gotten any money to run the humongous operations under them, Daily Trust investigation reveals.
The constitutional roles of the Police are maintaining law and order and ensuring peace in the country. However, years of underfunding and poor management have rendered the police largely ineffective in carrying out its responsibilities.

Daily Trust recalls that about N500billion was budgeted for the Nigeria Police Force in the 2021 budget. President Muhammadu Buhari had, in the fourth quarter of 2020, transmitted a budget proposal of N449billion to the National Assembly for approval as the 2021 budget operations for the Nigerian Police.

But the chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs, Mohammed Kumo, during one of the budget defence by Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu, said the amount was grossly inadequate.

Investigation by Daily Trust revealed that despite this amount, state Commissioners of Police, Area Commanders and their respective Divisional Police officers are made to source for operation cost to run their Commands and divisions.

The poor funding, according to a cross section of senior police officers and the rank and file interviewed by Daily Trust Saturday, creates a pathetic picture, which they said made their job tougher.

Several Police personnel interviewed for this story said Nigerians had on many occasions complained of extortion.

A Police commissioner confided in Daily Trust that police divisions received only N10, 000 monthly, which he said was also not forthcoming. He said the money was not paid in the last three months, he said.

According to him, State Commands and other formations are yet to receive any money as operational cost this year, making it difficult for them to meet basic obligations like provision of stationeries or fueling of generators and vehicles.

“My men that are out there on special operations have not also been paid. Not a dime. We expose them to danger and deny them even the most basic tools to perform their duties,” he said, pleading not to be named for fear of victimisation.

A Police officer at a community in one of the suburbs in Abuja, while speaking to one of Daily Trust correspondents who had gone to report his missing wallet, said they did not have a book to record his information.

“You can get a plain sheet, write all you lost there and submit it to our SO,” the officer said.

“Who will provide us stationery? We have been using parts of the money complainants pay to run the station, but when it is not forthcoming, what do we do?

“On the surface, bail is free, but it is not in reality because that is what many heads of the formations use to run their respective stations. Now that nothing is coming, everyone is on low-key,’’ he added.

The officer subsequently asked our reporter for the sum of 3,000 if he wanted his complaints recorded formally.

In Zuba, another suburb in the Federal Capital Territory, our correspondent observed that few rickety and abandoned operational vehicles in the premises of the station were no longer in use.

An officer in the station, who pleaded anonymity, said they lacked fund to fuel the vehicles before they were grounded.

He said, “Not that these vehicles were just grounded, they were in good condition before, but lack of fuel made them useless. You know what will happen if vehicles are parked without putting them to use.’’


Link: https://www.crimechannels.com/how-police-formations-groan-under-paucity-of-funds-across-the-country-source/

All the ones they gave you in the past....what did you do with it? Yeye and foolish talk...

So what happens to d 500billion naira

Thieves. All the egunjes they collect, where is it always going? Evil men