Haraja Usman Baba, President of the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) and wife of Usman Alkali Baba, the Inspector-General of Police, says she will remove beer parlours from police barracks.
She also threatened to evict errant officers who flout the directive.
Mrs Baba stated this while addressing the association members at the POWA Hall in Ikeja, Lagos state.
“During my inspection yesterday, I saw a lot of beer parlours in barracks. I know it is you people that encouraged such. You should try and speak to your husbands to follow the rules and regulations of the barracks,” she said.
The IGP’s wife disclosed that a signal would be sent to the Force headquarters to relocate beer parlours.
“We are going to send signals immediately for the relocation of the beer parlours. If you don’t keep to it, you will be ejected out of the barracks.
“I grew up in the barracks because my father was a policeman. Then, there was no beer parlour. And with the future of our children in the barracks, we should be careful because these children are more intelligent than us,’‘ she said.
Speaking further, she bemoaned the “dirty” state of barracks while announcing that there would be continuous sanitation exercises until they are retired.
What I saw at the barracks was devastating. The barracks were unkempt. It was very dirty. If there is no sanitation nationwide, can’t you sanitise yourself, or don’t we have barracks leaders?
“There is going to be sanitation henceforth. It is going to be a continuous exercise until we are retired”, she stated.
