Why not? The Nigerian Postal Service collects payment for stamp duty even when the financial transactions are all digital. Making sure it does not lose a money minting opportunity, the Nigerian Police Force has invented a way to extra N12,000 from Nigerians to use their app: “Nigerians who wish to report cases of rape, kidnapping, murder or incidents such as road accidents through the newly inaugurated Police VGS Mobile App must pay N12,000 before they can do so, The PUNCH has learnt.”
In the age of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, why can’t the Police create free accounts and ask citizens to report crimes therein instead of awarding dubious contracts to extra money from its citizens? Of course, this N12,000 is lower number as this is the individual plan. The family plan may even be more.
Recall that the Nigeria Police Force had, in a promotional video on its Twitter handle on June 2, 2019, said the app would go a long way in reducing the crime rate.
The Police had stated, “The Nigeria Police Force, through the dogged efforts of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, in a bid to combat the high rate of criminality and criminal elements, kidnappers, domestic offenders, violence, cultism, rape, robbery, among so many, has launched the Police VGS Mobile App.”
Culled from: Tekedia
