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Rivers Police College converted into farms

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The Nigeria Police Training College, which is located at Nowa-tia, an agrarian Ogoni community in Tia Local Government Area of Rivers State, is in a terrible state. Wild grasses have taken over a larger part of the college, established in the 1980s to train recruits and other personnel of the force from the south-southern part of the country. It occupies over 4,000 hectares of land.

Daily Trust on Sunday observed that the Quarter Guard unit of the college, located at the left wing of the main entrance, has been washed off, just as the small building that serves as its reception unit carries the semblance of a garage.

Also, the college has no gate to check movement of persons in and out of its premises. Furthermore, the only access road to the college from the entry point is not tarred, and it has lots of potholes. It was also observed that a larger part of the road, sandwiched in-between thick bushes, was overgrown with grasses. The entire college is not fenced, a situation that gives room for encroachment by indigenes of the community, who have converted half of its premises to a farmland.

Daily Trust, December 4

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