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 told the Nigerian Tribune 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.
Institutions under investigation included Detective
College, Enugu; PMF Training School, Gwoza and Ila-Oragun; ATS Training School,
Nonwa Tai; Police Colleges in Ikeja, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Oji-River; PTS Iperu,
Ibadan, Oyin-Akoko; Mounted Troop and Dog training Schools, Ikeja and Kaduna.
The committee would ascertain “if the heads of the
NPF formations were regularly updating the police anagement on the conditions
of the institutions between 2009 and 2012.”
Source: Tribune
