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November 12, 2019
The Senate has said the documents supplied by theNigeria Police Force during the budget defence did not indicate that the forcehad an accurate figure of its personnel.
The revelation, according to the official twitterhandle of the red chamber, was made known by the Chairman, Senate Committee onPolice Affairs, Haliru Jika.
Jika spoke while presenting the report of hiscommittee to the Senate Committee on Appropriation.
He told the Chairman of the appropriation committee,Senator Barau Jibrin, that the confusion made his panel members to have ameeting with the Chairman, Police Service Commission, Musiliu Smith.
He said the panel also held meetings with therepresentatives of the accountant general of the federation and the minister ofpolice affairs.
Smith, according to the report, was said to havetold the lawmakers that the Nigeria Police Force headquarters was in a betterplace to say the exact figures of its personnel.
The report added that the Minister of PoliceAffairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, told the Senate panel that the recruits were not onthe police payroll.