BY SIMON EBEGBULEM
BENIN CITY—Chairman, Police Service Commission, PSC, and Presidential Committee on the Reform of Nigerian Police Force, Mr Parry Osayande, (rtd), yesterday, said the recommendation made by his committee for the scrapping of Ministry of Police Affairs was not personal but in the best interest of the Police.
He said: "I have no personal quarrel with the Minister of Police Affairs, who is my friend. My only interest is what is best for the police force."
Osayande, who described as laughable, insinuation that his Commission wants to usurp the powers of the Ministry by recommending the scrapping of the Ministry of Police Affairs, said that funds for the police should be managed by the Inspector General of Police, whom according to him, is more familiar with the problems of the force.
"Our recommendations were not based on sentiment but for the good of the nation. For instance, if you go to Gombe State, they have finished the whole police institution there. Yobe is empty, I had toured these places but I don't think the Minister has. If they went on tour, they will know how to organise the buildings and the type of vehicles required there.
"Has the Minister ever been to Yenagoa or Obudu, but we have policemen in all these places. You cannot just sit down and award contracts and the Inspector General of Police does not know. I am not against the Ministry of Police Affairs. Look at our Police Colleges, they are dead."
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