The Nigerian police is yet to make public, the outcome of its investigation days after it raided the administrative headquarters of the National Peace Corps.
The police had justified the operation on grounds that the body poses a security threat to the nation but the head of the organisation, Dickson Akor, has since dismissed the allegation.
The headquarters of the Nigerian peace Corps is still under lock and key days after security operatives stormed the premises.
They had operatives arrested and taken away the commandant and 49 others on charges that the body was acquiring weapon and conducting covert military training in different locations across the country.
The police also accused the body of having no authority to wear para military uniforms and post personnel on guard duties?.
It further pointed out that officials of the corps were extorting money from innocent Nigerians.
The corps has become popular among teeming unemployed youths in recent times.
They often queue in different locations across the country, ready to part with the sum of 40 thousand naira to get enrolled into the corps.
News about its approval by the National Assembly and a pending law legitimizing the Peace Corp and giving it government backing, had only served to swell the ranks of youths besieging the locations of the body, hoping to land jobs.
The corps has been in operation for about eighteen years now and within this period, the police authorities had never questioned the legitimacy of its operations until recently.
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