…Wants Emergency Declared On Institution
By ERIC MOORE
THE Nigeria Police Trust Fund has described the state of the Police Training School (PTS) located in Nonwa, Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State as a disaster.
The Executive Secretary of the NPTF, Mohammed Sheidu, expressed this on Monday, when he led top management team alongside the House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs to visit the area to assess the condition of the school.
He said federal government should declare a state of emergency on the training school, expressing concerns about the uninhabitable structures and environment of the place.
He assured that urgent steps would be taken to rehabilitate the institution, adding that allowing the facilities to dilapidate to such a sorry state would affect future postings of new recruits to Rivers State.
Sheidu expressed: “We came to check out the training facilities of the Nigeria Police Force Training School. We are going across the nation to check on facilities, medical and training facilities.
“And Rivers State from my surprise with the current recruitment that was going on in the Police was not training any officer. So, I said it was needful that we came here ourselves to see the state of affairs of what is happening in the training facilities.
“We are going to look in forward in what we can do. As an intervention agency, our work is to come into things like this and see how we can facilitate and bring it back into a shape that should be able to train officers and youths and engage more people in Police Force, especially in an area in the South-South.
“It is a disaster. It is very important that something that is an emergency (state of emergency) should be declare here in Rivers State, especially with the training facilities that we have come here to look at today.”
Similarly, the Chairman, House Committee on Police Affairs, House of Representatives, Makki Abubakar, has expressed concerns about the deplorable state of the training school.
He assured that meaningful and urgent steps would be taken by the House of Representatives to address the challenge.