Delta: Concerned policemen expose how corrupt officers aid gangsters

SOME apprehensive policemen in Delta State Command have pulled the plug on how some unscrupulous police officers ruin genuine efforts of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Muhammad Mustafa, to put kidnappers and other criminals out of action in the state.

The policemen, who confided in Vanguard, disclosed that incompetent officers have commercialized the operations of various units in the Command making it difficult for Mustafa, an honest and knowledgeable police officer, who met the irritating state of affairs on resumption of duty, to professionally deal with hoodlums.

They also disclosed that many policemen were recognizably poor in weapons handling and shooting, maintaining it was the reason criminals have rampantly been attacking, killing and disarming law enforcement officers in the state, lately.

A number of policemen had been callously murdered and their AK-47 rifles snatched by hooligans in the last few months in the state. The Command has found it thorny to recover the weapons though some suspects were said to have been arrested.

Vanguard, November 13, 2018

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