The
inspector general of police, IGP Solomon Arase, on Tuesday heaped the blame for
corruption in the police on Nigerians and sent out an appeal that Nigerians
should stop corrupting his officers and men.
Arase
made the appeal while fielding questions from journalists during his meeting
with deputy inspectors general of police, assistant inspectors general of
police and command commissioners of police where he called on the public not to
corrupt police personnel by giving them bribes.
“I
am appealing to the members of the public, do not corrupt my policemen. It
takes two to tangle. If they ask you for bribe and you refuse to give, and you
have avenues where your grievances can be ventilated, I do not see any reason why
you should give them bribe.
“The
Commissioner of Police is there, the Area Commander is there, the DPO is there,
our office is there and the technical platform (to report corrupt police) is
there. We have opened ourselves to public accountability. So, you cannot now
say the whole problem should be put on the police force’’, he said.