Nigerian Police Force Commissions Veterinary Complex/Dog Breeding Center In Abuja

The Honourable Minister of Interior Lt.Gen Abdulrahman B. Dambazau, the House Committee Chairman on Police Affairs Hon. Haliru Jika and the Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase at the Commissioning ceremony of the ULTRA-MODERN MOUNTED TROOP/VETERINARY COMPLEX AND STATE OF THE ART DOG BREEDING CENTRE repectively at Deidei Abuja, on 10th March 2016 at Dog Breeding Centre Dei-Dei Abuja.Other dignitaries at the event include the chairman Police Service Commision Sir Mike Okiro CFR,NPM,mni(IGP rtd),and the representatives of Chief of Army Staff,Comptrolller General of Immigration, Commandant General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps...
Meanwhile, The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr Solomon Arase, has said that the Nigeria Police Force had spent over N600 million on the procurement and maintenance of foreign dogs in the last few years.Arase made the disclosure at the inauguration of the Police Dog Breeding Centre and Ultra Modern Mounted Troop in Abuja on Thursday. “This is certainly not sustainable in the face of the currentdwindling resources,”he said.The IG said that so much money was being spenton the importation of dogs from foreign countriesthat rarely adapted to the country’s policing objective. He said that the projects inaugurated were funded within the budgetary provisions of the Force Animal Branch.Arase said that the force animal branch had remained underutilised in the past while the force continued to rely on importation of dogs and other animals for its operations. He said that the centre was built to aid the police acquire capacityto locally breed police dogs as well as support other security agencies in the country.The Police boss said that the centre if effectively utilised, would save the nation some foreign exchange that would have gone into procurementof dogs from foreign countries. The IG said that the centre had the capacity to breed and supply police dogs to the entire West African sub-region.“It is projected that at optimal breeding capacity, it can produce well above 200 dogs per year,“he said.He said that the establishment of the facilities was part of the long term strategies aimed at restoring police primacy and aligning it to best global standards.