““We have resolved the issue and the recruitment would be done on local council basis. Very soon the exercise would resume,” he said.”

This criteria will not promote excellence. Promoting excellence is the only way the police can be improved to do its legitimate job. Using local council is simply playing politics which is divisive and retrogressive, and will continue to worsen the very poor and bad image of the police.

If Nigeria will develop it must separate politics from bureaucracy. Politics is about numbers, bureaucracy is about excellence. It’s only through excellence that jobs are done properly, and development and progress begin to manifest.