NPF To Renovate Police Colleges, DIG Mba Says

The Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of training and development, Nigerian Police Force, Mr. Frank Mba has announced that the force will very soon beginv the re-invention and renovation of police colleges in Lagos, Kaduna, Maiduguri, and Enugu States.

Mba made this known this at the Police College at Oji River, Enugu State, during his continued tour of the police formations in Nigeria on Tuesday evening.

He noted that the four premier police colleges had a special place in the history of Nigeria and deserved serious intervention to upgrade their structural facilities to ensure a good environmental ambiance befitting their status.

“These four premier police colleges have a special place in the history of our country therefore what we are trying to do is to embark on a massive re-invention and renovation of these schools,” he said.

He pointed out that when the renovations and rehabilitations have been done, they will not only be fit to train police personnel not only in Nigeria but in other countries as well.

“We hope that moving forward, by the time we are done with repositioning our training schools, we’ll be able not only to train our personnel effectively but also be able to train members of the other law enforcement agencies and even police officers from other countries outside Nigeria,” he declared.

Speaking specifically about the Police College at Oji River, Enugu State, Mba said the force would fix the perimeter fencing, the access roads as well as other aspects of the college.

He also said that particular attention would be paid to the clinic in the college so that it would not only serve the school alone but the host community as well.

“For here, like the Executive Secretary Police Trust Fund, Mohammed Sheidu has already said, we shall be paying emphasis on, from the security point of view, we’ll fix the perimeter fencing as quickly as possible. We’ll fix the access roads and we shall attend to the other aspects of the College.

“We’ll also be speaking to the Executive Secretary and we shall be paying special attention to the clinic here.  That is important to us, not just for the welfare of the trainees but because we want to render services to the host community.

“We want people from Oji River to be able to walk in here, get their children immunised, walk in here, get their vaccination, walk in here, and get treated for basic challenges of health that we have here in this country.

“So, people of  Oji River, people in this local government, people in this area need to feel the positive multiplier effect of an institution like the Police College domiciled in their country home,” he said.

The DIG training and development expressed optimism that in no distant time police college, Oji would take a different shape.

“We are positive, very very positive that in no distant time, we’ll all come here with you and the story will be a different one and the story will be positive,” Mba said.