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KADUNA State Commissioner of Police, Tambari Yabo Mohammed, has said his command welcomes constructive criticism in the media.
Tambari who made the assertion when the management of New Nigerian Newspapers led by the Managing Director Mr. Ndanusa Alao, paid him a visit Friday added that as human beings, police personnel were bound to make mistakes.
He reasoned that through constructive criticism in the media his command would take correction with a view to ensuring that things are rightly done.
The state police chief however stated that his command would not accept a situation where the media would publish falsehood and sensational stories to cause disaffection among the public.
“If the police is doing something that is bad, they should be exposed. Any policeman that engages in an unholy act should be singled out and such police officer would not be spared,” the police chief said.
Tambari also advised the media not to carry sensational news or publish libelous reports against the force, adding that “the police have been battered before. This may be so possible because of our history.”
He expressed satisfaction that the current transformation in the force has changed the police for better, stressing that “the Nigeria police is no longer what it used to be in the 1970s through 1980s. There has been a tremendous change to the extent that educated police officer cannot stoop so low to demand for 20 Naira at a road block.”
Tambari who admitted some shortcomings on the part of some officers of the force, said the police high command had been working hard to eradicate those ills, pointing out that, it had reduced drastically.
He advised media practitioners to see the police as partners in progress in the fight against crime and other general duty assigned to the police to perform in the constitution.
Earlier, the Managing Director of the New Nigerian Newspapers Limited, Mr. Ndanusa Alao who led the management team commiserated the police commissioner over the death of Haz Iwendi who Alao described as one of the best police officers in the country.
The New Nigerian chief executive who also congratulated Tambari on his appointment told the police boss about the long cordial relationship between the state police command and his company.
He commended the police command for its renewed effort at crime prevention and control.
Alao who also praised the command for cooperating with NNN management told the police boss that in “New Nigerian we practice responsible journalism.” He solicited for mutual understanding and cooperation between the state police command and the NNN.