Why Nigerian Police May Continue In Bribery, Corruption -By Micheal A. Adeniyi

Please stop telling me the police is my friend,  a hungry man can never choose to be friendly, as they say, a hungry man is an angry man. I somehow though it was insanity when some frustrated policemen pull their trigger and shoot innocent people at the face for shameless bribe taking spree,  close observation shows it was anger from hunger and frustration. You would think they are mad when you call them to an ongoing burgle in your home and they reply you to “please bring us fuel” . Curious about why they take bribe and charges for bail,  I started looking inward into its administration and this is the main reason why the Nigerian Police cannot secure you!

Nigeria police are only helping themselves with the bribes and money from bails if I would be honest here, this is it,  the budget of Nigeria Police last year was N17 billion, but only N6 billion was eventually released to it. The Nigeria police consist of 300,000 strong men while budget of the Nigerian National Assembly that same year was N120 billion, and every single kobo budgeted was exhausted and the population of the National Assembly is 500. The corruption emanated from the structure,  this is one of the reason I said change can only begin from the leadership and structure of administration/governance, how do we preach change to the police. I make bold to tell you that we need a proper restructuring in this nation. I rest my case here,  I am a man of few words!

Change begins with the structure, not only me, not only you and I.

Thank you.