Kelechi Kas
The Senator representing Rivers South-East senatorial district in the national assembly, Barry Mpigi, has decried the state of the police college in his constituency.
Mpigi in a motion on the floor of the Senate during plenary which he co-sponsored with Thomson Sekibo, Betty Apiafy, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Ifeanyi Uba, Ovie-Omo Agege and others, said “We are worried that the Police College at Tai Local Government Area, Rivers State has been allowed to deteriorate virtually in all areas of its status that if measured vis-a-vis its projected functions, it is close to zero.
“The Police college is therefore in a steady degeneration, especially within its institutional settings, and through its poorly inducted officer trainees scattered in areas of police operations across the nation”
The motion acknowledged that with the present state of the College- instead of being ready to train quality police officers, primed to check and combat insecurity, law and order in Tai LGA and in the entire Rivers State and the nation general- has itself become an urgent public security concern.
Mpigi said the situation makes it imperative that the ugly decaying status of the College must be arrested and reversed tor improved security of Rivers State and the nation in general.
The Senate in its resolution urged the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to as a matter of urgent national security intervene in the deteriorating condition of the Police College in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State.
It also urged the Police Service Commission to take adequate measures and inventory of police colleges in the nation to ensure that the standard meets acceptable global limits for efficient policing.
