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Nigeria: Presidential C'ttee Seeks N4tr for Police Reforms
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This Day (Lagos)
22 May 2008
Posted to the web 22 May 2008
Sufuyan Ojeifo
Abuja
Presidential Committee on reformation of the Nigeria Police, headed by former Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Dikko Yusufu, has recommended that N4 trillion should be pumped into the Force to bring it into conformity with the requirements of the new millennium.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport and sponsor of a Bill for an Act to establish a Tax Fund for the Nigeria Police, Senator Gbemisola Saraki ( Kwara Central), disclosed this yesterday in her lead debate on the bill's general principles.
Saraki said, "all through the various reports, there is one constant: statutory budgeting alone cannot bring the Police to the 21st Century where it is able to tackle crime. Mohammed Dikko Yusufu Presidential Committee has estimated that the amount of money needed to bring the Force into the new millennium is N4 trillion.
"In 2001, under the Ministry of Police Affairs, a five-year Development Plan was produced. It looked at general, legal, institutional and logistical framework of the Police. The cost implications were enormous and the plan was abandoned. Seven years later, the problems persisted. For how long shall we delay the inevitable?
"If we as lawmakers have no faith in our abilities, capacities and the potential greatness of our country, we might as well go home. It is evident that thus far, measures provided for the funding of the Police by the Constitution and subsidiary legislation have done nothing to stem the rapid decline of the Police into the farcical butt of jokes or objects of pity or contempt.
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"Rather than to bemoan the fact that things are not as they ought to be, it is imperative that we find solutions such as the one proposed therein".
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