Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has praised the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba for improving the welfare of operatives of the security outfit and delivering significant infrastructural facilities to encourage professionalism in the force.
The governor made this disclosure at the commissioning ceremony of the newly built Model Police Station at Madi Road, Ilorin West Local Council, Kwara State.
“We are privileged to be one of the first states to benefit from this initiative. Needless to say that the Police Force has gone through several phases in its development. One of the phases was during Inspector General of Police Gambo Jimeta when the uniform was changed. And this is another landmark phase where the police infrastructure and welfare would be upgraded,” he said.
“If one is coming down the Madi road and asks for the direction of the Police station, the person would have passed here before realising it, because this is not an ordinary building. It does not look like our normal police stations.”
AbdulRahman, however, appealed to public office holders to embrace innovations and be impactful in their various positions, thereby pledging his administration’s continuous support to all security agencies within the state.
“The emphasis should be placed on the need to improve and upgrade. When we are in a position we should leave it better than how we met it. That is what IG Alkali has done and continues to do by making sure that the facilities, infrastructure and welfare of the Police are his priority,” he added.
“I feel very proud that this type of facility is in Kwara State. I will raise it during our next Governors’ Forum meeting that whenever we want to assist the police in developing infrastructure, we should go with this model.
“And we in Kwara will also try and replicate this building in the years ahead. I visited some of the barracks and was not too happy with the way things are. We have done some things and we will do more. We know that the government is limited by the scarcity of resources, while also trying to allocate funds for all sectors of the economy,” the governor concluded.