A copy of the petition, signed by SERAP’s Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, on January 18, 2013, expressed worry over the horrible state of police training colleges and other police formations in the country. It alleged that the fund meant for the college had been squandered.
The petition reads: “SERAP believes that investigation by the ICPC into the spending of budgets meant for police colleges across the country would provide the much needed accountability. This will help to establish whether the money budgeted to improve the infrastructure in the colleges and welfare of its trainees has been spent as allocated or simply stolen, misused or mismanaged.”
SERAP said the need to carry out the investigation is sequel to Channels Television’s damning report that the Nigeria Police College, Ikeja, Lagos, was in a deplorable condition.
SERAP added in the petition: “The college is overcrowded (housing 3,000 people instead of 750); that students hostels are in dilapidated conditions and lack beds, mattresses and decent and functioning toilets.
“The dehumanising conditions of the Police College, Ikeja and other police colleges across the country seem to explain why the force has been unable, for many years, to provide adequate security for the common man and to effectively tackle crimes.”
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday paid a surprise visit to the college on his way to Cote d’ Ivoire for an ECOWAS meeting.
The visit, said to be “a fact finding inspection” by a police source, was a result of the television’s damning report about the deplorable condition of the Police College, Ikeja.
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