The Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar announced Jonathan's decision during a meeting with Police Finance Officers at the Police Headquarters in Abuja on Friday. Abubakar said that the new finance status would help improve the services of the police to the Nigerians.
He described the approval as a watershed coming after more than eight decades since the Nigeria Police Force was established as a single and centralized national Police Force in 1930.
Before the approval, the police had operated its accounts under the Ministry of Police Affairs, a system which the police chief described as counter-productive in project executions.
"This new development will smoothen out those bottle-necks. For the fact that the president had approved the self-accounting for the police, you will experience some challenges. You must brace up to such challenges and better responsibilities, ensuring that what needs to be done must be done," he said.
Abubakar noted that even with the new self-accounting status in place, the Ministry of Police Affairs would still be responsible for formulation of policies affecting the force.
"Let me warn too, that those in position to handle finances show great professionalism in doing so, as anyone found wanting would be made to face the full wrath of the law," he said.
A recent report by Cleen Foundation in collaboration with McArthur Foundation concluded that the Nigeria Police Force is one of the most financially corrupt government bodies in Nigeria, Channels Television recalls.
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