The Nigerian police lament over poor standard of living in the barracks.

this is the present state of the Nigerian police barracks where they reside with their family from the photo above. Punch correspondent recently visited one of the barracks at Pedro police barrack, Somolu in Lagos. the policemen interviewed lamented over the deplorable state of the facilities and poor living condition. they asked how the police is supposed to be your friend when they live like rats... here is the excerpt of the report. 

Punch:

He was drenched with sweat by the time he wriggled himself through the narrow entrance of his room into the passageway. Looking very depressed and drowsy that Thursday afternoon, he dragged himself along the hole-ridden passage and collapsed into the rickety sofa beside the staircase that leads to the upper floors in one of the buildings in the barracks.With frustration written all over his face, Emma Uden (not real names), a sergeant in the police, kept muttering to himself, but dosed off few minutes later. Apparently disturbed by the music blaring in his neighborhood, Uden could not but open his eyes feebly and intermittently.

His pain was obvious to anyone who came across him, but the reason for his frustration was largely unknown. However, as Uden would later tell our correspondent in a conversation he grudgingly consented to, since the apartment allotted to him in the barracks collapsed in June last year, he and his family had been living in the kitchen of one of the dilapidated buildings in Pedro police barracks, Somolu, Lagos. That was his main frustration.

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