NIGERIA POLICE SPEND $3.2 MILLION ON PEACE KEEPING OPERATION IN THREE MONTHS.

IG of Police Mohhammed Abubakar

Nigeria Police have spent $3.2 million on peacekeeping operations in the last three months, the Inspector General of Police IG Mohammed Abubakar, has said. he stated this shortly after inaugurating the Peacekeeping Hall at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.

The IG explained that officers deployed for such missions were paid three months allowance in advance before departing the country to encourage them to effectively carry out their duties. adding that they are given food to take them for three months as well and the required equipment,

Responding to a question, Abubakar said that police personnel could replicate their exceptional performance in peacekeeping mission at home if provided with equipment. According to him, Nigeria is the only country in the world where you could find a police station without light, vehicle and other necessary equipment and yet the police are expected to perform.

Mohammed Abubakar told Masquerade234 that with the equipment the police will to make the country more secure.