Fire Corrupt Police, Immigration Officers, Jonathan Orders PSC, CG | Leadership Newspaper NG President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday gave a marching order to the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the new Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration services, directing them to sack all corrupt officers and other bad eggs in the system. According to him, indiscipline and irregularities in staff promotion exercises has been the order of the day in the military and para-military and the outcome are the undesirable elements in the system who aid corruption and sleaze that are the main causes of under-performances. The president who gave this directive when he swore-in the new PSC Chairman, Mr. Mike Okiro and five members of the commission implored then to ensure that there was discipline in the force, beginning with the promotion exercise which he said must be based on merit. Noting that he was under pressure to sack top police officers between the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police and Inspector General over the bombing of Louis Edet House in 2011 by Boko Haram, Jonathan said, “But I believe there are two things, one is the issue of discipline, and so one of the responsibilities of the Police Service Commission is to instill discipline. "Another thing I believe is that people who have no merit to certain ranks are being promoted to those ranks. One of your responsibilities is to handle promotion. I believe with you only those who merit or deserve promotion should be promoted. Those who deserve to be disciplined or even dismissal must be disciplined". The new PSC chairman, Okiro told State House correspondents after the swearing in ceremony that the commission will address those issues that are making the police not to live up to expectation. He said, “We will look at the instant laws and see the areas that the Police Service Commission is supposed to act to reform the Nigerian Police force and if it is an issue that requires the handiwork and cooperation of everybody, the press, you people, Nigerians and the Police officers themselves have to open up their minds for reform.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:58:06 +0000