The National Economic Council (NEC) has approved ₦100 billion for the rehabilitation of training institutions of the police and other security agencies across Nigeria.
The decision was taken at the Council’s 154th virtual meeting held on Wednesday.
In addition to the main appropriation, NEC also approved ₦2.6 billion for consultancy services to support the implementation of the project.
The funding follows a report from an ad-hoc committee chaired by the Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, which assessed the state of security training facilities nationwide.
According to the committee, many institutions were found to be in a ‘deplorable condition’, a situation described as a major setback to national security capacity.
Addressing members of the Council, Kashim Shettima, Vice President of Nigeria and Chairman of the NEC, underscored the government’s commitment to turning promises into tangible results.
He said: “Our task is not to admire problems, but to solve them. Not to explain challenges, but to overcome them. And not to hope for progress, but to engineer it.”
The initiative builds on the earlier endorsement of a revamp plan during NEC’s 152nd meeting in October, where the overhaul of training institutions was first proposed by President Bola Tinubu as vital to improving the competence and morale of security agencies.
The rehabilitation will involve upgrading dilapidated infrastructure, refurbishing classrooms and barracks, and equipping training colleges with modern tools and facilities—a long-overdue intervention for institutions that have suffered neglect for decades.
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