The Northern People\u2019s Democratic Party New Media Strategists, (NPDPNMS), says the Federation account allocation of 0.5% allocation of all revenues to the Police Trust Fund is illegal and unconstitutional, the group has studied the police Trust Fund establishment act and has found that there is a fundamental breach of the 1999 constitution as Amended.<\/p>\n
The 1999 Constitution clearly stipulated how the Federation Account allocation should be shared amongst the the 3 Federating Units, without any anticipation whatsoever that a certain deduction will be made for any body created by the National Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n The National Assembly will have to go the whole hog of a constitutional amendment if it were to succeed in getting the Federation allocation deductions 0.5% done for the Police Trust Fund as currently passed by the Police Trust fund establishment act.<\/span><\/p>\n The Federal Government should rather than shy away from it\u2019s exclusive responsibility of funding the police take up its responsibility fully with support from the states to the state commands.<\/span><\/p>\n Currently some of the state Governments are overwhelmed by challenges of Salaries, infrastructure and critical needs, any deductions will further jeopardize the solvency of most states.<\/span><\/p>\n NPDPNMS concedes that the police needs an improved funding to enhance its performance, but funding the police from an illegal, unconstitutional sources will only jeopardize it further.<\/span><\/p>\n We therefore urge the Federal Government to own up to its duty and not to shift burden to states and LGAs.<\/span><\/p>\n Muhammad Abdullah (MS)<\/span><\/p>\n National PRO, NPDPNMS.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Northern People\u2019s Democratic Party New Media Strategists, (NPDPNMS), says the Federation account allocation of 0.5% allocation of all revenues to the Police Trust Fund is illegal and unconstitutional, the group has studied the police Trust Fund establishment act and has found that there is a fundamental breach of the 1999 constitution as Amended. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2809,382,327,2810,2808],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-0-5-faac","tag-muhammadu-buhari","tag-national-assembly","tag-npdpnms","tag-police-trust-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}