Jonathan’s visit to police college is meaningless – House C’mittee Chairman

by Isi Esene

The chairman of the House of Representatives committee on Police Affairs, Usman Kumo, has described president Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to the Police College in Lagos as “meaningless”.

He said the unscheduled visit only served to suggest that the president is unaware of the dilapidated state of police formations and barracks in the country.

He continued saying the aim of the visit to the college has been defeated.

“He simply displayed that he has not been in touch with what has been happening to the police.

“Who does not know that all police colleges in Nigeria are in a dilapidated state and uninhabitable?

“Why did he go to Lagos? Was it because a television station aired the poor state of affairs there.

“What about Gwoza? What about Jos? Are these places better?

“Did he go to Lagos because it is cosmopolitan?

“It is meaningless.”

Kumo listed poor funding, welfare and equipment among the major problems of the Force, which had not been addressed for many years.

He reportedly disclosed that his committee had pre-planned a meeting with the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, to discuss the challenges facing the Force.

Kumo clarified that the meeting, which is set for Wednesday, was already scheduled before Jonathan’s visit to Ikeja.

“That is not the aim. It was scheduled already that the IG and members of the committee would meet to discuss on police matters,” he stated.

The president had paid an unscheduled visit to the Police College in Lagos after a documentary was aired by ChannesTV detailing the inhumane condition of living police recruits are subjected to.

Comments (4)

  1. And what has this loud mouthed Committee chairman and his gang of equally corrupt Committee members done about the state of the police colleges since they have always known about it.Nonsense! He should hide his face in shame.All they ever do is collect bribes all in the name of oversight function.

  2. MrPresident did the right thing.I salute him.The President should pay unscheduled visits to Federal Agencies and Facilities including NYSC orietation Camps.State Governors should be doing the same.They will have first hand information on the state of things in areas visited.

  3. What is wrong if he visited? What we should be intrested in is hopeing that his visit will yield something good for the police.

  4. The house(legislators) is filled with stupid men and who ever this Usman Kumo is, he's leading the pack. The president did well going there to see for himself and not depending on what good-for-nothing committees says. All they do is lie, cheat and take bribes.
    I'm not a GEJ apologist, but good gestures must be praised. Though in his usual way of ruining everything, GEJ rather opted to blame channels TV and opposition for trying to embarrass his government by airing the eye sore of a police college. These guys just keep making lower lows!
    @countproject

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