Former inspector-general of police (IGP) Mr. Sunday Gabriel Ehindero
has asked the federal government to probe all past IGPs with a view to
uncovering those who were responsible for the decay in the country’s
police colleges.
Ehindero, in a telephone chat with LEADERSHIP WEEKEND yesterday, said
that the infrastructural decay in colleges occurred under the watchful
eye of the past police chiefs.
The rot in the police colleges came under public focus when Channels
Television featured a report on them as a prelude to its forum on police
reform. The documentary drew the ire of many Nigerians and elicited a
prompt visit to the college by President Goodluck Jonathan, who
reportedly likened the college to a bird’s poultry.
Soon after the president’s visit, which was described as a proactive
move by another former IGP, Alhaji Mohammed Gambo-Jimeta, Nigerians
began to call for investigation into the immediate and remote causes of
the neglect of the colleges and other police institutions across the
country.
When LEADERSHIP Weekend contacted Mr. Ehindero for his reaction to an
allegation that former IGPs were responsible for the deplorable
condition of the colleges, his initial response was, “No, no, no. I
don’t want to comment on that.”
Prodded further, Ehindero, who succeeded convicted former IGP Mr.
Tafa Balogun from 2005 to 2007, said repeatedly, “Let them (government)
investigate and find out which IGPs were there.” Gambo-Jimeta had
earlier reacted to the visit of President Jonathan to the college: he
had asked the president to come up with a concrete Marshal plan to
salvage the colleges from further decay.
The former police boss, during a chat with newsmen, bemoaned the
neglect of the schools by successive administrations, which, he noted,
led to their deplorable condition.
Already, the presidency has set up a 12-man committee to investigate
all funds donated or appropriated for the maintenance and renovation of
the police colleges.
Meanwhile, the Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has said the
President Jonathan-led administration should not be held responsible for
the rot in the infrastructure at the Police College, Ikeja.
He said the administration should instead be commended for working
hard to solve the problems facing the country’s security agencies.
Addressing State House correspondents yesterday in Abuja at the end
of a meeting of the Police Fund Committee chaired by Vice President
Namadi Sambo, Obi said President Jonathan was committed to changing the
fortunes of all security agencies, particularly the police, adding that
the committee was fast-tracking its work to deliver in good time.
On the floating corpses found on a river in his state last weekend,
Governor Obi said despite the promise he made that N5million would be
given to anybody with useful information, there was no clue yet.
He assured Nigerians that proper autopsy would be carried out on the
corpses in order to know what went wrong, especially since there was no
reported case of communal clash in the area.
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