Policing, the Nigerian Police & Corruption

In 2013 our Engineering company got a job with the then Delta state government to fix the Solar Street Lightning of the state capital, Asaba. A huge contract was initially awarded to a company but they did a sub-standard work. We did a quality job on the Solar Street Lightning that the supervising Engineers in the state Ministry of Works always mocked us that "Hausa people no like money!". I spent 3 months in Asaba, Delta state.

While there an Engineer shared a true life story with me about a senior Police officer who is an indigene of Delta state. I will share this story with Friends.

This senior Police officer who is now retired has 8 children all grown up and University graduates but he warned them that none of his children will join the Nigerian police. Two of his children insisted that they want to follow his footstep but their father was adamant.

Then one day his wife pointedly asked him why is he preventing his children from joining the Nigerian police? The man called a Family meeting. When everybody was seated the man cleared his voice and said "I am now born again Christian and as long as I live none of my children with join the Nigerian police".

The man said he did terrible things for money while in the Nigerian police. He told the children that he will tell them just one instant. He said there was an armed robbery in the house of one of the elites of the state. They received an emergency call and he quickly dispatched a police team to the area. Three of the armed robbers were arrested. He said after a week the leader of the armed robbery gang contacted him for the release of the three armed robbers in exchange for 10 million Naira. They accepted the money and released the robbers.

After a month that Delta elite went to Abuja and met the Inspector General of police who was his classmate at the University. The police IG ordered that those 3 captured robbers should be sent to him. The retired police officer said they abducted 3 innocent people, tortured them and sent them to Abuja as "armed robbers". He said usually the police don't take such armed robbers to court, they will take them to Bush, ask them to run and shoot them. That was how those 3 innocent people were killed.

When he finished this story everybody in that house was crying. He looked at his children and told them this is just on case. There are many. None of his children ever disturb him with joining the Nigerian police again.

Inference

I am not asking Nigerians not to join the Nigerian police. No, police job is among the most honorable and God rewarding jobs if one is honest and corruption free. Everything about policing is service and help to humanity. And conversely, the easiest ticket to Hell Fire is dishonesty as a police officer.

Dear Friends, the Nigerian police is undoubtedly the most corrupt police force in the world. The most decorated Police officer in Nigeria, DSP Abba Kyari, was recently unmasked by the FBI as an international fraudster that is in bed with the infamous scammer Hushpuppi. It is not an exaggeration to say that 99% of the Nigerian police are extremely corrupt. Please note: Not corrupt but extremely corrupt.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com
Elbinawi.

Tell me one sector that is not 99% corrupt
Our parents generation wan kill us

Police corruption is a global issue.not just perculiar with nigeria police force.