Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni has said a police station in Nigeria gets forty-five thousand naira in three months as running cost.

Owoseni said this while addressing members of the Human Rights Defenders and Advocacy Centre, a civil society organisation, who protested to his office in Ikeja.

The group urged the Federal Government to probe the embezzlement of funds meant for fuelling of patrol vehicles, stationeries, uniforms and allowance for the Nigerian Police Force.

The group had placards with inscriptions such as ‘No More Embezzlement of Police Funds’, ‘IG is a thief’, ‘Why are Police Officers buying Uniforms by themselves’ and ‘Junior Officers dey work, Senior Officers dey chop’.

Addressing the protesters, Owoseni said the group was protesting on the basis of ignorance as police fund was not embezzled.

He said government could not be blamed for the low budgetary allocation to the police as there were many other competing sectors to be catered for.

Owoseni urged members of the public to make use of the ‘Smart Police’ application to report any police misconduct.

Earlier, Chairman of the group, Innocent Agbo, said they had written several letters to the Inspector General of police to explain to the public why police officers, especially the junior officers, were not properly taken care of, but he never replied.