When over 1,000 police officers and their families were forcefully displaced from the historic Central Police Station (CPS) Barracks in Onitsha in 2013 following a controversial land dispute, many Nigerians viewed it as an isolated crisis. But it wasn't.
*Thousands of officers live in leaking, overcrowded, barracks nationwide
*Shares rooms with rodents, snakes in colonial structures’
*Police personnel spend personal funds on repairs
By Soni Daniel
When over 1,000 police officers and their families were forcefully displaced from the historic Central Police Station (CPS) Barracks in Onitsha in 2013 following a controversial land dispute, many Nigerians viewed it as an isolated crisis. But it wasn’t.
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