The police has also warned that the situation may frustrate its efforts towards effectively tackling the growing insecurity in the country.
The security outfit also blamed the reduction largely on the envelope budgeting system of the government and urged the National Assembly to exclude the NPF from it.
In a presentation made to the National Assembly, the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, decried the slashing of the outfit’s proposed budget by the Budget Office of the Federation from eight hundred and eighty nine point six billion naira to seven hundred and ninety six point seven billion naira.
Baba made the comments to the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Police Affairs last week behind closed doors while defending the proposed budget of the NPF in the 2023 Appropriation Bill.
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