Your 2018 budget is a non-starter’, Reps tell IGP

The House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs has explained why it rejected the 2018 budget proposals presented to it by the leadership of the police. It described the budget as thoroughly inadequate and grossly incapable of mitigating the hydra-headed security situation in the country.

The Committee, chaired by Hon Haliru Dauda Jika, returned the budget proposals to the police the same way it was presented, and requested their immediate update, in consonance with the ever-changing security dynamics of the country.

Indeed, in a year loaded with significant political activities and programmes preceding the 2019 election year, the Committee averred that these developments will throw up multifaceted security challenges and the budget proposals fall grossly short of minimum expectations.

Police Inspector-General, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, last Wednesday, had led the police top brass to the National Assembly, to make a submission of N332 billion, for the 2018 fiscal year.

“While the sumptuous figure of the budget proposal seemed impressive and grand, diligent scrutiny of the proposal indicated that only about 10% of the budget covers overhead and capital costs. The remaining 90% is specifically for personnel costs for the Service”, a source close to the Committees said.

Vanguard, January 21, 2018

 

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