Na our police dem still be, u cannot chase dem out of d country.

The question still remains, WHICH WAY NIGERIA?

if things are happening like this now then what type of society do we expect generations yet unborn to be dwelled in?

I will feel sorry for my beloved country Nigeria

An album should be made then sent to the hierarchy or GEJ should be tagged with these pics on Facebook, I think the NPF has a page on Fb too!! they should see their yansh outside!!!

^^^^^Very good suggestion!

Except l have a strong feeling "This our NPF is beyond shame"!

A Tear For The Nigerian Police Officer
Wednesday, 02 June 2010 12:08
Jon Chikadibie Okafo

In Nigeria, people often suggest that only two things are certain- this certainty is tainted with some strokes of negativity. Certainty that a drunken fellow is always playing with the switch at the generation/distribution points of PHCN, and that the Nigerian Police Force is a big source of national embarrassment. Of course, NEPA turned PHCN has a reputation that is too ugly to describe here; The NPF is a mess, to say the least.

Most of us “cyber-tigers” [Apologies to Fani Kayode] make it a point of duty to vent our spleen on the shoddy manner in which our dear country is being run. We also find it a little bit comforting exposing the true faces of the masked men and women that somehow, for no logical reasons find themselves in the corridors of power and have suddenly assumed the silly title of “leaders”. But today, I have chosen to pitch tent with the men and women of the Nigerian Police Force-those poor miserable folks! After much deliberations, after much obvious observations, after reflecting deeply on the real issues affecting and afflicting our police service, I have decided to make a humble attempt at projecting a true picture [as I see it] of the average Nigerian Police officer- it is an ugly picture, it is the type of picture that should shame most of the men and women that occupy space at the National Assembly in Abuja, law makers whose major pre-occupation is benefits; feathering their own nests.

Probably, about eighty percent of the Nigerian police population is made up of the “rank and file”; from the ranks of Inspectors to the newly recruited Constable. These are the majority of the police officers you encounter daily, and they represent the kwashiorkor that is the Nigerian Police Force. Their condition is so pathetic; their plight is nauseating, their misery is miserable! When we shout about mediocre policing in Nigeria, when we lament about the charlatans that represent our nation’s police force, all our verbal tirades drenching with repulsion is always directed at these poor fellows-the rank and file of the Nigerian Police force. How do you identify them? When next you are accosted by a fellow dressed in the traditional black shirt on black trousers [in that blazing heat!], a black shoe or a pair of tattered slippers, a dodgy-looking black beret, and clutching either an AK47 rifle with an extra magazine taped to it, or an antiquated Mark-IV rifle, do not flinch! That is the Nigerian police officer I am talking about; wait for a shout of “hol’ it there!”, and the picture is complete. Where is this fellow coming from? A police friend of mine argues always that every nation has the police force it pays for. I tend to agree, but to some extent.

Maybe there is an unwritten official fiat that stipulates that most of our police officers fitting the picture above must be semi-literate, or almost illiterate! [Not being funny here, but I have met many police men in the Northern part of Nigeria that revelled in shouting “Ba turenci” when approached with a query presented in English!]. A police officer that can not effectively communicate in English in a country that has that language as her lingua franca is a mobile malady. Thus, any verbal interaction between this officer and a “civilian” that is not crafted and presented in “Pidgin English” is usually met with a pregnant hesitation, and a scowl. Being an armed officer, do not make the mistake of assuming that his rage might be “impotent”-countless victims abound as a result of this unsafe assumption. Now, it is clear that a Nigerian police officer is not your friend as they want “we the people” to believe. He is an angry man venting his grumpiness at the wrong crowd rather than at the people that make his job a miserable one-the police top brass and the government that employed him [assuming he is a male officer].

The Nigerian police officer is the worst dressed police man. Whoever chose that all black uniform must have a weird sense of humour or was trying to pay the Police back for some past maltreatment! Black as a colour traps heat and the intensity of the sun in our country fears no police man, or woman! Imagine a police officer at a check point, in the middle of nowhere [or somewhere along Shagamu-Benin express way], on a normal sunny day, sweaty and drunk! [Yes, as an unwritten rule, there is always a woman selling assorted brands of local gin close to every police check-point]. Again, the colour black has a sad reputation of being lumped together with all that is perceived to be negative-this is erroneous though. Black sheep, “black devil”, black book, black man, black snake, black magic, and now, “black” policeman! Somebody started this mission to demonize the Nigerian police officer a long time ago by choosing to dress him in black, I dare say.

Now, this police officer dressed in black works at a police station that defeats all attempts at trying to depict an ugly picture. Every man to a large extent is a reflection of so many things, including his home, place of work and the car he drives. When these three are an assemblage of all that is repulsive, then the man attached to them is an embodiment of rudeness in its crass form and revulsion. It is a sad tale but true. There are thousands of police stations and posts littered across Nigeria and one thing that holds them together is their collective claim to notoriety. They are all filthy, and the working conditions of the officers and men that are unfortunate to work there remain unsavoury. Regularly, there is an irregular power supply to all the police stations [somebody at PHCN must be having a good laugh], the jails are little dungeons filled with smelly inmates, the mixture of the stench of human waste and misery fanning majestically inside the station, outside, there are numerous accident-disfigured vehicles, pepper-soup joints and local gin sellers, hung outside too on two bamboo poles-a tattered Nigerian flag and an equally tattered Nigerian Police Flag. The picture is complete. Have you ever been to a police barrack, anywhere in Nigeria? Please do. The ones I have been to are all notorious for harbouring miscreants, hooligans, and sundry fellows. The only shelter provision for our police men and women in those barracks are shanties that were built before the Biafran war, relics of the colonial era. Our police officers are sheltered like fugitives, with an average police family of four cramped together in a single room! Toilet facilities in these barracks are deplorable. All across Nigeria, all police barracks are the same, very ugly shacks! Believe me, any police officer that lives in such a mind-bending environment won’t be in a hurry to paint a picture of civility. Certainly, not a breeding ground for sane men!

Why would the average Nigerian police officer be civil? As a career choice, the police man is seen as a misfit, as a complete failure! The Nigerian Police Force is widely regarded as a dumping ground for those who are either not so keen on making an impression on academics, or those whom the promises of the class rooms failed to impress. Hence, a police officer is assumed a failure. His welfare is a fattening ground for politicians and his bosses. Was it not the ex-IG, Mr. Tafa Balogun that was hauled to jail for coveting seven billion Naira of Police funds [yes, 7 Billion!]? This was after making so much noise about improving the lot of our police officers. Our police force is so ill equipped; I weep whenever I see our “gallant” police officers at check-points armed with WW2 Mark-IV rifles! At such check-points, a rickety Peugeot 504 pick-up van or saloon is always a constant part of the picture-and sometimes scrawled on the side of the van is the cheeky slogan, “To serve and protect with integrity”! Zebrudaya must have suggested that! The officers are not always protected by bullet-proof vests, not that they would not want to but for the simple fact that they are not provided. The jalopy vans provided for patrols belch out more smoke than the legendary Lagos “Molue”. This is the police force we have protecting us in Nigeria. A police force that is angry at the society. Misguided and misdirected animosity, I must say.

Every society has the police force it pays for, not true? I certainly did not bargain for this for I am neither a PDP stalwart, a “stake holder”, or in government in Nigeria. Neither am I a police officer. The Nigerian government should be held responsible for the stinking rot that is the Nigerian Police. Systematically, our Federal government has under-funded and stultified the police force. Our police force of today is exactly what it was designed to be during the Colonial era-an instrument of coercion! The federal government has refused to equip the nations’ police and position it as a modern police force. Entrance into the officer cadre is still being based on “Federal Character” as against merit. Money voted for police officers’ welfare usually ends up in private bank accounts, pockets or ceilings, our police men are demoralized. The only time our Abuja law makers wake up to challenge police ineptitude is when a politician is assassinated, when a “prominent” party member is kidnapped, or when the police choose to withdraw their armed MOPOL guard!

Some have argued that our police officers are a representation of the larger Nigerian society, a society that is fast galloping down the slope to its destruction, a society that has thrown morals and virtues to the swine. For sure, our police men are not dedicated; amongst them are a bunch of criminals who are in uniform as the quickest means to filthy lucre. Our police men are Nigerians too, they are not foreigners. The Nigerian state does not hold any promise for her citizens; it is a replay of the Hobbesian State of Nature- all man on his own. Government at all levels in the country is an organ that caters exclusively for those that parade the corridors of power-the leeches that suck the life out of our patrimony! Believe me, I am not holding brief for the men and women of the Nigerian Police Force, I will not suggest any claims to understanding some of their very bizarre actions, but I will always stand up to argue that they are a creation of our ruling class. People are forced to seek employment in the police force with an ulterior motive because the system has allowed such rot to fester in the first place; most people in government steal so much money, enough money to run an African country! These criminals are decorated with National honours and are elevated to the silly positions of “leaders of thought”. Most police officers are barely literate and you might want to let them just be; the Nigerian state as we have it places no value on education. That is why after more than four decades as an independent nation, the passive late President Yar’dua was celebrated as the “first university graduate” to rule Nigeria! Meaning that we were content with having soldiers of fortune that had no reasonable claims to academic prowess governing us for so long! Daily, our police officers fell to the superior fire power of bandits-deaths that could have been avoided if our government have chosen to provide the necessary tools and incentives to help them function well as capable police officers; they die as unsung heroes because the Nigerian society has become such a callous one that death is no longer discussed with sadness, children even come out to dance when a corpse is being buried!

Well, the police man sees you and me as his enemies. This explains all the hostility we encounter at various check points in Nigeria. This is their way of telling you “first-hand” that the police are not your friend. When next you see a police man hurriedly shedding his uniform, hiding his rifle and running faster than you at the sound of “enemy gun shots”, do not blame him-run! The system that created the police man will not miss him if he dies, and believe me our police officers cherish life more than anything else. Next time you run into a check-point manned by angry and hungry looking police chaps, try to understand where they are coming from, think of that barracks where they are housed [those are the lucky ones o], think of their entire welfare package, remember the condition of the last police station you visited, think of the politicians in the various levels of government in Nigeria- I am sure you will shed a tear for our country, especially for the caricature police force that claims to protect us all with integrity.

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How can we (Nigerians) expect wonders when we entrust our security in the hands of wretched hungry "armed" men?

We just breeding criminals in place of a police force

The police man on whose condition this thread was started seems to be either drugged or drunk because he is lying on a bare sandy floor. But the question is, where are his colleagues who are supposed to be on duty with him (because he is not supposed to operate alone)?

Then on issue of bribery and corruption, it has reached an alarming level that when you enter most offices for biz today in Naija, if the personnel there cannot brazenly ask you for bribe, they will create an artificial difficulty/scarcity just to make you part with some money before getting what you want. Note also that godfatherism is one of the highest forms of corruption in the land today.

The police is no different from other Nigerians. Bribery and corruption is worshiped and celebrated everywhere you go in Nigeria, be it in politics o, at the airport o, seaport o, at the motor garage o, even at the filling stations particularly during fuel scarcity. Bribery and corruption have become a norm. It is really a pathetic situation.

Corruption cannot be eliminated if our leaders continue to be corrupt. The leaders must first purge themselves of this canker worm before demanding same from the led.

A beg, they r human beings too, lol

This is Kuramo beach
This Guy is drunk, hahhhhahaahahhaah

THE TRUTH IS THAT THEY DO NOT READ NEWSPAPERS OR LISTEN TO THE NEWS OR IS IT THAT THEY DONT GIVE A DAMN OR HAVE GOT THEIR CONSCIENCES SEARED?THESE PICTURES SHOULD CALL FOR NATIONAL SOBER REFLECTION.WHERE ARE WE GOING FROM HERE,NPF

THE TRUTH IS THAT THEY DO NOT READ NEWSPAPERS OR LISTEN TO THE NEWS OR IS IT THAT THEY DONT GIVE A DAMN OR HAVE GOT THEIR CONSCIENCES SEARED?THESE PICTURES SHOULD CALL FOR NATIONAL SOBER REFLECTION.WHERE ARE WE GOING FROM HERE,NPF

Conscience ke! Go to the mosque on fridays and see our bigmen in front row praying as if they are the angels of Allah. What of on sundays? Special seats are reserved in front row for them too. They will pray as if they are angels on mission to cleanse the earth of every evil. But after the fridays and sundays prayer nko? They put on their devil souls and operate as if there is no God. I weep for this damn country.

why we no go get local security men like OPC, this is an aberration

I beg yr pardon, am not too sure that this pics are not from nollywood or nolly stick home movies.

Better still the poster might have giving this police men pepper (money) to act this way since the only language a police

man understands is money, look at that fat police woman she looks like one nollywood or yorubawood actress.

^^^^^^^^
It shows you just read OP's post and clicked on reply. I believe you dont see other pictures posted or are they all from Nollywood? All the policemen in these photos cannot be paid to act that way - it is their way of life. That is the NPF we are living with. Expect more pictures from sagacious NLers.

Just like what a poster has already said "a picture worth more than a thousand words" it only depends on how we see and interpret it.

Is Nigeria ever going to be a civilized country?

really sad those officers need to be checked in the head, very embarrassing

i really believe the problem starts from the management, the standard duty shift is 8hours, but it's not the same for Nigeria's security system. you can imagine a police man working for 24hrs or atimes 12hrs, he's bound to get tired, he's human not a robot. Their's a lot of problem with the management of the police force

dami_paul:

i really believe the problem starts from the management, the standard duty shift is 8hours, but it's not the same for Nigeria's security system. you can imagine a police man working for 24hrs or atimes 12hrs, he's bound to get tired, he's human not a robot. Their's a lot of problem with the management of the police force

The officer shown by the op is most likely drunk or drugged, even if he is overworked, he would not loose his senses up to d extend of sleeping on the floor. May be is a robot

Nigeria is sleeping on duty, time will tell

To prove in any court of law that this policeman was drunk, can this picture stand? I dont know who is realy dumb here, but must we all just jump into judgement because somebody posted a picture! Com'on let us be reasonable for once!

@cogitoErgo,
u sound like one of these policemen yourself. what do u mean if a picture can stand in a court of law. is there any court of law in nigeria? in nigeria where two seized ships disappeared without trace yet no court of law cld prove it and we still remain calm what more an ordinary picture.
if you use our roads, u will know that this picture is one of the easiest things to happens with the nigerian police.
i know a police officer in person that starts his official days and ends them at a bar in my place. he goes home drunk on daily basis and he is always with his gun.

The NPF is not but a reflection of the Nigerian society. All the govt setups have corrupt minded individuals in em and corruption is encouraged either directly or indirectly. So the whole of Nigeria is in the mess but just because the police unfortunately does theirs in the open they ve turn the scape goats.

Corruption is not as RAMPANT in the private sector not because there are no corrupt minded individuals but rather because it is abhor and not turned into a way of life. And this all boils down to strong institutions or lack of it in Nigeria. May God help us

men of the Nigeria Police are just so annoying; worst dan d touts i tell u. Dont pray u encounter dem and their wahala,

my fellow Naija I NO FIT HOLD MY LAUGHTER BUT THIS IS HIGHLY DISGRACING, BUT DESPITE ALL SINCE WE CANT HELP THE SITUATION LET US KEEP ON PRAYING FOR OUR LOVELY COUNTRY.[color=#006600][/color] NIGERIA MY COUNTRY I LOVE YOU AND WILL ALWAYZ DO, IF I CAN SERVE MY COUNTRY IN SOKOTO(DESERT, SEAT OF CALIPHATE,) WITH DEDICATION , UNDER THE RAIN AND IN THE SUN JUST TO SHOW MY LOVE TO THE NATION WHY WON'T I PRAY AND LOVE MY BLESSED NATION
IT IS WELL!

those in that picture were recruited from the burukutu joints and other beer parlours. Shame on you olopas!!

come on man. look at the grimace on that mans face. he just got knocked da fork out

a drunken policeman is as precarious as a mad man with machete, the best thing is stay away from them.

I've been having a bad day at work. I logged on to NL and see these pix, I am now fully cheered up. I love Nigeria. Nigeria cannot be Nigeria without these pix(people).
Back to work,

9ija police, na wa oooo!

Thank u guys, i will really appriciate if the moderator could just allow this thread for police-9JA POLICE.
I know that nt all of them are that bad we should post the pix of good ones.

alfablondy:

The officer shown by the op is most likely drunk or drugged, even if he is overworked, he would not loose his senses up to d extend of sleeping on the floor. May be is a robot

. what do you say to the other pictures? the police man on Inec duty etc. Besides, if you as a Police Boss (mistakenly or otherwise) employs somebody you didn't Vet properly and still allows that person to drink on duty, an offence that should attract a memo or querry depending on the persons level. Won't you check your systeem?!!!

Be aware

Police arraign 25-year-old for taking picture with Blackberry phone
Written by Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare, Lagos
Sunday, 14 November 2010

A 25-year-old law graduate from the University of Wales, Onyekwere Michael Onyemaechi has been arraigned before the Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for using his blackberry phone to take pictures of some police officers at their duty post.

When he was arraigned before Magistrate Botoku, who held brief for Magistrate A.O Komolafe, Michael, who just came into Nigeria nine days ago after seven years of studying abroad to commence Law School in Abuja, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge brought against him by the police prosecutor.

The two-count charge brought against him bordered on assault and breach of peace by indiscriminately taking pictures at a public place.

The charge sheet read: “That you Onyekwere Michael Onyemaechi “m” on the 4/11/2010 at about 1800hrs at Acme Road junction, Ogba, Lagos, in the Ikeja Magisterial District did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace at Acme Road junction, being a public place, by using your blackberry mobile phone to take photographs of people indiscriminately, including that of two police officers namely Inspector Jerry Abuo and Cpl. Etim Itoro, for a ill motive and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 249(D) of the Criminal Code, Cap.17, Vol. 11 Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria 2003.”


http://tribune.com.ng/sun/index.php/news/2553-police-arraign-25-year-old-for-taking-picture-with-blackberry-phone

shm,
The guy sef na law student, let him practice his law,