SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Police Force, NPF, has dismissed a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, and the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, which listed police operatives as being among the highest takers of bribe in the country.
THEWILL recalls that the report, which has released on Wednesday, alleged that police officers and the judiciary are the highest bribe-takers in the country with over N400 billion spent on bribes annually.
Dismissing the report as misleading and a clear misrepresentation of facts, Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, Jimoh Moshood said the report was claimed to have been based on a survey conducted in April and May, 2016 across the 36 states of the Federation and the FCT.
In a statement signed in Abuja late Friday, Moshood stated that the deliberately ill-timed release of the findings from a survey carried out two years ago was coming at a time when the Force has fully keyed into the “Change Begins with Me” mantra and declared total war on corruption.
He added that the Force has also established and repositioned the mechanisms of the Force responsible for fighting corruption, bribery and other corrupt tendencies within and outside the Force, adding that the report
The Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, also pointed out that the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris has assured Nigerians and the international community of sustained efforts which would be based on international core values of policing with integrity and the determination of the Force under his leadership to shun corruption and bribery in all its ramifications.
Moshood declared that since the inception of the present administration of the NPF in July 2016, after the reported survey has been conducted and concluded, Idris has introduced and implemented diverse internal reforms aimed at bringing corruption to zero level in the Force.
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