The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, wants to raise the entry point salary in the force from N28,000 to N100,000.
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He is proposing the increase as part of his effort to reform a force that is so ill-trained, poorly equipped, unmotivated, corrupt and dangerous that it is universally vilified and held in the highest odium and ridicule of all the institutions of the dilapidated Nigerian state.
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The Police may not entirely deserve that reputation, considering how thick the layers of slime that cover every other key organ of state.
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From a Presidency that does not flinch at a billion naira food budget and that is eager to build a N2 billion banquet hall and a N4 billion "First Lady" secretariat, to the most expensively-paid national legislature in the world, down to ministries and parastatals whose sole reason for existence is contract-mongering, the entire Nigerian public sector is a cesspool of corruption.