Nigeria Police Officers Now Less Corrupt – Police Affairs Minister, Dingyadi

The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Maigari Dingyadi has said due to the reforms initiated by the All Progressives Congress administration, the level of corruption previously attributed to officers of the Nigeria Police Force has drastically reduced.

He stated this on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting, at the Presidential Villa Abuja.

According to Dingyadi, even though no poll was carried out by the Police authority to prove this claim, the feedback he got from the Nigerian public, especially from surveys and observations that was done randomly in places like markets and other similar locations where Police Officers were posted shows that the situation is now getting better.

He revealed that FEC has approved a draft bill for the standardization of the various police training institutions in the country, which will be transmitted to the National Assembly for passage soon.

According to him, the bill when passed will give legal backing to the police training institutes, including making them financially autonomous for effective and professional policing services.

Dingyadi said its main objective is not to establish new training colleges, rather it is to boost the 7 existing police colleges, 15 training institutes and other allied professional institutions across the country.

His words,” I must say that even before this policy proposal or bill, our findings have shown that levels of corruption have drastically reduced because of this government reforms.

“One of the objectives of this bill is to improve the standard of teaching and learning in these training institutes which in the long run we are bound to have good output in terms of professional officers, by implication it will also help reduce issues of corruption”.