The Nigeria Police College, Ikeja, Lagos State is the first in the country. In a recent video report by ChannelsTV, the very deplorable situation of the College is shown in the following images.
You will see the male dormitory 10, constructed in 1940 by colonial masters with its incredibly hellish looks (yes, it looks like hell). The toilets are abhorent and the bathrooms? I wonder how they manage to take their baths in there.
Here, police recruits will spend 13 months for training. In 2013, a sum of N311 billion naira has been budgeted for the Nigerian Police. There are 7 police colleges in Nigeria and a total of 18,500 constables graduated as at December 2012. These colleges include the Lagos Police College (see pictures below), Kaduna Police College, Kano Police Academy, Maiduguri Police College, Oji Police College, Police ICT College, Abeokuta and the Police Detective College, Enugu. In addition to this, there are two mobile police colleges, one in Gwoza, Borno State while the other is in Ila-Orangun, Osun State.
The College once had an Olympic-size swimming pool which is now a breeding ground for toads. It used to win medals for shooting all over West Africa but there is no shooting range anymore.
According to Jonah Mavah, the Deputy Commandant of the College, there has been no major development since establishment except for some few renovations.
The College itself was built for 700 students but today, it contains 2,554.
As for the library, the Staff says they cannot remember the last time books were supplied to the library which is full of museum pieces and antiquities called books bought in the 1970s.
You will see the male dormitory 10, constructed in 1940 by colonial masters with its incredibly hellish looks (yes, it looks like hell). The toilets are abhorent and the bathrooms? I wonder how they manage to take their baths in there.
Here, police recruits will spend 13 months for training. In 2013, a sum of N311 billion naira has been budgeted for the Nigerian Police. There are 7 police colleges in Nigeria and a total of 18,500 constables graduated as at December 2012. These colleges include the Lagos Police College (see pictures below), Kaduna Police College, Kano Police Academy, Maiduguri Police College, Oji Police College, Police ICT College, Abeokuta and the Police Detective College, Enugu. In addition to this, there are two mobile police colleges, one in Gwoza, Borno State while the other is in Ila-Orangun, Osun State.
The College once had an Olympic-size swimming pool which is now a breeding ground for toads. It used to win medals for shooting all over West Africa but there is no shooting range anymore.
According to Jonah Mavah, the Deputy Commandant of the College, there has been no major development since establishment except for some few renovations.
The College itself was built for 700 students but today, it contains 2,554.
As for the library, the Staff says they cannot remember the last time books were supplied to the library which is full of museum pieces and antiquities called books bought in the 1970s.
The bathroom from Hell.
50 students are expected to share a small piece of fish. Refugees in Somalia and Kenya get better treatment than this.
Mealtime. They have to share half a bucket of eba and a bowl of miserable egusi soup. When they are given feeding allowance, they collect N150 per day (that’s about a dollar), or N50 per meal. Now, I am feeling for officers of the Nigerian Police. We cannot get something from nothing. As we lay our beds, so we lie on them.
Inside the male hostel.
Still inside the male hostel. They call this a hostel?
This is the Male Dormitory 1. Built in 1940 by the colonial masters, this is the Male Hostel 1 of the Nigerian Police College, Ikeja, Lagos. Nigerian leaders, you should climb Mount Kilimanjaro and take a nice dive into the Indian Ocean.
Windows of the hostel.
And what the hell is this?
Suffering and what? Yeah, smiling.
And this is where we Nigerians train our police officers. Weldone! Wellplay!
No electricity.
A student of the college points to the blood stains of fat bed bugs. Only if this police college was under the National Universities Commission (NUC), its accreditation would have been lost since. What a school!
I still can’t believe my eyes.
And we seriously expect him to turn out and become a fine police officer? You are dreaming!
The entrance to Hell. Better be in a trance before you enter.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Inside the female hostel. Nice shoes they’ve got just that I don’t know why they will be sleeping on stones when their VP is building a house for N14 billion?
Still inside the female hostel. Eeeyah, pitiable ladies, they even had to write names on the buckets since everything is in short supply and you have to guard the little possessions you have. Giant of Africa indeed!
#CoversNose
Shower time! Anyone?
Like, for real?
Is this a police college or a prison?
Drainage systems da?
And you expect them to fight Boko Haram? Stop kidding me please.
Well, he has no option.
Like secondary school hostels. I am not sure even Federal Government Colleges are better than this. FGC peeps, no vex o.
You pay peanuts? You get monkeys. You want them to protect you? Treat them well. This is a PRISON.
What a life!
A cross-section of the hostel.
Strikingly similar to the shot of a prison I posted not too long ago.
This is the office of the Officer-in-Charge of Works, and the only thing they have there is ONE functional typewriter. In this century?
I am just wondering if the seat of the Inspector General of Police looks like this. Nigerian leaders, wake up!
Teaching in an overcrowded class. No public address system, no airconditioning units. No nothing.
Inside the driving school of the college. What a nation!
The last time they bought books for the library? 1970s. So, forget computers and Internet access.
Source: Channels
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