New Nigeria IGP denies misappropriating police fund

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Suleiman Abba yesterday denied allegations that funds deducted from salaries of police men for the ‘police cooperatives’ of which he is Chairman of the board was being siphoned through misappropriation.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking during the distribution of shares certificates of Nigeria Police Mortgage Bank to police men, the IGP said, “I must tell you the system in handling deductions in police cooperatives has been going on for many years; if anybody is complaining or is having problems with crediting his account I think something is really wrong.”</span></div> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_459894" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 422px;"> <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/new-igp-denies-misappropriating-police-fund/sulaiman-abba-police/" rel="attachment wp-att-459894" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Acting Police IG Sulaiman Abba" class="size-full wp-image-459894" height="250" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sulaiman-abba-police.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 1px 1px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></span></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Acting Police IG Sulaiman Abba</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IGP Abba noted that: “Even if it exists it may not be unconnected with the fact that “we have been struggling to computerize the activities of the cooperative, he said adding that, “There may be delay but not that anybody is tampering with funds.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I must tell you, I was worried because up till last week some of us were complaining, that it was fraudulent and if I tell you I wasn’t worried I will be telling lies, because my hands were in it,” he said</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.Continuing, Abba said: “I was entrusted with the funds in the cooperatives and I was contributing billions to that venture (Police Mortgage Bank). If for any reason things had gone wrong, it wasn’t only the former IG that would have been blamed.”Speaking on the shares certificates of the Police Mortgage Bank distributed to police men, IGP Abba said the establishment of the bank was to enable the police easy access to the funds of National Housing Scheme.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: “If you hear the billions we have been contributing so far and we have not been able to access it, because we do not have an organized way of accessing it, you will agree with me that establishing the mortgage bank was a worthwhile venture.”</span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/new-igp-denies-misappropriating-police-fund/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_brnBox_cont NA" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 3px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/new-igp-denies-misappropriating-police-fund/#sthash.36amEUI2.dpuf</span></div>

New Nigeria IGP denies misappropriating police fund

Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Suleiman Abba yesterday denied allegations that funds deducted from salaries of police men for th...

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