Police Trust Fund: Adamawa lawmaker raises alarm over massive internal displacement of police officers

By Billy Graham Abel, Yola

The member representing Numan, Demsa and Lamurde at the House of Representatives, Kwamoti Laori, has raised an alarm on matter of urgent public concerning and national security, calling on the public and the leadership of National Assembly to halt the ongoing massive internal displacement of police officers in the country.

Kwamoti warned that the ongoing eviction of police officers across 25 barracks in Lagos alone and several other barracks in the country under the pretense of renovations could result in catastrophic security backlash unless the matter was addressed.

Kwamoti Loati made this known in a press release made available to Sunday Sun over the weekend in Yola, Adamawa State.

The lawmaker noted that despite the creation of the Police Trust Fund in 2019 with the mandate to renovate and build residential areas for men and women of the force, the end of the fund had not been met as most barracks in the country still lay in ruins.

He pointed out that since the establishment of the fund, over N5billion was said to have been disbursed for renovations of police residential areas across the country although no evidence on ground to support the claim.

Kwamoti said: “There is a huge question mark hanging over the essence for the creation of the Nigerian Police Trust Fund in 2019 as enshrined in Section 5 (e) of the Nigerians Police Trust Fund (Establishment) ACT 2019 as the law saddled the fund’s with the responsibility for the construction of police stations, provision of living facilities, such as quarters or barracks for the Nigeria Police Force.”