Report has emerged that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) disbursed a total of ₦402.8million on burial expenses for its commands and formations over a 14-month period amid insecurity plaguing the country.
The story was broken by Govspend, which says the expenditure, spread across eight separate payments between April 2024 and December 2025, and was made as overhead allocations for burial expenses to police commands and formations nationwide.
According to the report, payment records showed that on April 5, 2024, the police released ₦55 million as burial expenses for various commands, schools and zones covering the January–February 2024 allocation.
A subsequent payment of ₦50 million was made on July 10, 2024, described as payment for burial expenses covering the March–April 2024 allocation.
Barely six weeks later, another ₦54.8 million was released on August 21, 2024, with the payment description stating that it was “being payment for burial expenses to various commands and formations for the month of July, 2024 allocation.”
On October 10, 2024, the force approved another ₦50 million, described as payment of burial expenses for various commands and formations for the July and August 2024 period.
The expenditure continued towards the end of the year, with ₦60 million paid on December 28, 2024, as burial expenses covering the September–October 2024 allocation.
The pattern was repeated in 2025. On June 27, 2025, the police released ₦50 million for the January–February 2025 burial allocation.
Another ₦50 million was paid on October 14, 2025, with the payment description stating that it was “being payment as overhead cost allocation for burial expenses for commands and formations for the month of March/April 2025.”
The final payment captured in the records was made on December 31, 2025, when ₦33 million was released as overhead distribution to commands and formations for May–June 2025 burial expenses.
Altogether, the eight payments amounted to ₦402.8 million. The records collectively covered 14 unique months of burial expense allocations, although one entry relating to July 2024 appeared to overlap with another payment covering the same period.
While the payment records do not disclose the number of officers whose burials were covered or provide a breakdown of how the funds were distributed among commands and formations, they indicate that burial expenses remain a recurring overhead cost for the force.
Not few police officers have been killed in the unending insurgency.
Last Friday two policemen attached to the Chairman of the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Hon. Nura Umar Bungudu, were killed by marauding bandits who abducted Bungudu and his family members at his residence.
