Five Recruits Suspended from Police College for Indiscipline

Five recruits have been suspended by the Nigerian Police College authorities, Oji River in Enugu State, on the grounds of indiscipline.

News Agency of Nigeria reported that the suspended recruits are among the 966 fresh entrants of 2016 class currently being trained since Dec. 31, 2016 and are scheduled to pass out in September.

The Commandant of the college, Anthony Ogboji, disclosed the information while addressing the police at the opening of a three-day Nigerian Police Force Human Rights Training Programme in Oji River on Friday.

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Mr. Ogboji revealed that the recruits were selected from the five states in the South East zone -Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo.

He said: “144 recruits out of the 966 were specialists and have successfully been trained, passed out and posted to various department and formations of the force where their skills are needed.

“The officers attached to this college are doing their best to ensure we turn out well-trained, disciplined and seasoned police constables that can contain the enormous and dynamic police duty challenges in the society.

He hence revealed the the suspension of the recruits saying, “Therefore, five recruits who have been found wanting in discipline, are serving suspension”.

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The commandant thanked the Enugu State Government for a N10 million grant to upgrade the infrastructure at the college.

“When I was posted to the college I was scared seeing the level of infrastructural decay.

“The college wrote to Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi explaining the infrastructural decay and some needs of the college for which he graciously released the N10 million.

“Today, recruits are no longer going to the bush to defecate. The female recruits are now bathing in the bathrooms inside their hotels and no longer in the open place.

“There is light in the hostels now, soak-away (sewage) pits constructed, doors and windows that were bad replaced and leaking roofs repaired and replaced,’’ he said.