The director of music at the Nigerian Police Training College, Ikeja, Lagos, Favour Chinonyerem, has been accused of extorting some 183 students of the college to the tune of N8.23 million.
PREMIUM TIMES learned that the director demanded various spurious charges from the students of the 2018/2019 academic session, who were reportedly forced to pay as much as N45,000 each without the knowledge of the police management.The students also told PREMIUM TIMES that the director has refused them becoming graduates allegedly due to their failure to pay another round of N5,000 each for the repair of damaged property at the college.
The 185 officers, who opted for music, resumed to the music school in Lagos on October 15, 2018, for a year-long professional training.Some of the affected students, who spoke to our reporter in confidence for fear of being sanctioned, narrated their ordeals since 2018. “Some of us trained in police college Maiduguri, some in police training school Bauchi, and some in Benue, kwara, Lagos, among others, and none of us was told of anything about any money to be paid at the college,” one of the affected students told PREMIUM TIMES, adding that; “There was no receipt and it is not stated anywhere in all the official documents we obtained.”
Some of the college’s graduates who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on condition of anonymity said prior to the emergence of Mrs Chinonyerem as the director, course materials were usually provided free of charge. But while the students were still grumbling over what they described as extortion, the director was said to have advised the students to contribute additional N10,000 each, if they would like to conclude their programme on schedule.
“We are aware that when the authorities interrogated her over the allegations, she said we are yet to fully understand the instruments and we would need to stay for 18 months instead of 12. A new set of students have resumed but they have not started training for more than a month now because we are still in the hostel,” the source said.
She said; “I don’t know that they have chosen to go through your office to report the matter to you. I couldn’t have in my capacity kept them here. There is COVID-19 and there is no movement; they have to take their final exams and we cannot gather them together to cluster.” “For the first time we have not been paying people salaries except this set, maybe because they have so much money as salary that is why they are doing all these,” she said in annoyance.“There are questions I don’t have to answer you; what I need to answer you, I have answered. Whatever they have written to you, they have already reported at the headquarters and I have given them my answers,” she added.
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