Presidency resolves feud between Senate, PSC over police recruitment
President Muhammadu Buhari has resolved the differences between the Senate and the Police Service Commission (PSC) over the recruitment of 10,000 personnel into the police force.
The exercise was suspended in September following a disagreement over the method to adopt.
The Senate Committee on Police Affairs wanted nine candidates to be picked from each local council, but the PSC preferred equality of states as a criterion.
Ibrahim explained that the position of the Senate was informed by the need to ensure that more policemen are recruited from states with higher population, pointing out that even the policy of community policing would be better enhanced if policemen are recruited from remote rural areas in local councils.
Before suspending the process, the Senate in a letter asked the PSC to postpone the exercise over alleged irregularity in the criteria adopted.
Addressing journalists yesterday, Senator Ibrahim said the disagreement between the Senate and the PSC over the recruitment exercise has been resolved.
“We have resolved the issue and the recruitment would be done on local council basis. Very soon the exercise would resume,” he said.
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““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.
We will review and take appropriate action.