As part of ongoing efforts at tackling the housing needs of the Force and ensuring that every Police Officer has a roof over his or her head, the Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has charged the NPF Mortgage Bank to come up with innovative ways of funding Police housing projects.
Abba said this is with the view to helping officers and men of the Force to own their own houses.
The IGP said this on Friday at the Force Headquarters, Abuja during the official commencement of the distribution of the NPF Mortgage Bank share certificates to officers and men of the Force.
It would be recalled that the compulsory deduction of N11,000 from the emolument of all officers and men of the Force as a subscription fee for the ordinary share of the Police Mortgage Bank sometime last year gave automatic shareholding status to all Police personnel whose money were compulsorily deducted.
The shareholding status will enable the Police take full ownership of the Mortgage Bank institution and equally enable them to benefit from the dividends as well as loans for the purposes of developing their own houses.
Abba has described the feat as a turning point in the history of the Force.
He and called on all officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force to take the advantage of the opportunities provided by the Police Mortgage institution to access different house acquisition options available to them.
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