BETWEEN THE POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION AND THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON POLICE AFFAIRS

               The recruitment of 10,000 police officers by the Buhari administration which comprises of 500 Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, 500 Cadet Inspectors, 1500 Specialist Officers and 7500 Constables commenced on 24^th April 2016, but was stalled due to a disagreement between the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the Senate Committee on Police Affairs, over which criteria was to be used to select the 10,000 new officers nationwide. While the PSC argued that State criteria be used, the Senate Committee on Police Affairs wanted the PSC to use the local government area as criteria. This resulted in a stalemate which was eventually resolved after a long wait by adopting the local government area as criteria.

                The implication of this is that, the north which already has an advantage in the Nigerian Police Force due to having more states than the south will be given more advantage to the detriment of the south who are already out-numbered in the current set-up in the Nigerian Police Force.

                A simply arithmetic calculation shows that:

Number of Local Governments in Nigeria= 774

Number of States= 36

Number of Police Officers to be recruited= 10,000

Number of Police Officers per State = 10,000/36= 277

Using Kano (44 LGAs) and Bayelsa (6 LGAs) as example, we have:

Kano = 277/44 = 6 (Officers per LGA)   and Bayelsa = 277/6 = 46 (Officers per LGA) 

Number of Police Officers per Local Government Area = 10,000/774 = 12

Using Kano (44 LGAs) and Bayelsa (6 LGAs) as example, we have:

Kano = 44*12 = 528 (Officers for Kano State)   and Bayelsa = 6*12 = 72 (Officers for Bayelsa State)

Recruitment based on Local Government Area will favour States like: Kastina, Kano, Borno, Jigawa, Imo, Osun and Akwa Ibom due to their having high number of Local Governments.

Recruitment based on State will favour: FCT, Bayelsa, Gombe, Ebonyi, Nassarawa, Lagos, Ogun etc.

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WHY JONATHAN SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED FOR CORRUPTION

                           

Akunyili and Magu as examples

                When former President, Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Dora Akunyili as DG of NAFDAC in April 2001, Akunyili started to reform NAFDAC from a docile Agency to a very active one. It is instructive to note that the reforms she carried out at NAFDAC with the support of the then President, Obasanjo was not because the President asked her to reform NAFDAC, but it was because of her passion and love for her country. She carried out her duties diligently without caring whose ox was gored. She made a lot of Nigerians to be conscious of NAFDAC and its activities. Nigerians began to check for expiry dates on products they wanted to buy, especially drugs. NAFDAC became the most popular government agency during her spell there. There were many Directors of Agencies and Heads of Parastatals during her stint in NAFDAC, but Akunyili purposed in her heart to distinguish herself from the crowd just like Daniel in the Holy Bible “who purposed in his heart not to defile himself with the king’s meat”. Former President Obasanjo, gave the same instruction he gave to Akunyili to other members of his government; the difference is that Akunyili saw it as a responsibility and a rare opportunity to solve a challenge Nigeria was plagued with.

                Enter Magu, a former Director of Operations at EFCC and now the Acting EFCC Chairman. I see it as a mockery of the intelligence of Nigerians, to say that it is because of Buhari’s anti-corruption stance that EFCC started doing their already established work of going after corrupt Nigerians. It simply means that the EFCC is telling Nigerians that once President Buhari is done with his tenure and the next President is not anti-corruption inclined, then their job will be left undone!

                Lack of strong institutions seems to be the major problem with the Nigerian system, everybody is waiting for their leader to tell them to do their work, not minding the fact that their salary is statutory. That explains the reason why everything seemed to be on standstill during the last year of Yar’Adua as President. Until the Doctrine of Necessity was used as a political solution.

                US President Barack Obama once said that Africa  needs strong institutions and not strong leaders. It goes to say that once we have strong institutions, Nigerians would not be too bothered about the posture of the President, because  institutions will function properly whether the President is interested or not. It is obvious to everyone in Nigeria that the EFCC will go back to sleep once Buhari leaves office, which should not be the case.

                EFCC has not been successful in prosecuting corrupt government officials, simply because EFCC have been building a house from the roof downwards, instead of building from the foundation upwards. EFCC has been prosecuting suspected corrupt government officials in the media, instead of gathering enough evidence first. We all know that after all the media trial, you still have to go to court to prove your case and sadly that is when EFCC starts to gather evidence. An accused person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

                The way forward is for EFCC to stop all the media trial that takes no one to jail, EFCC should gather enough evidence and assemble a good prosecuting team before heading to court. It is foolishness to continue to apply the same method that has yielded no positive result and be expecting things to change. Magu should focus on building EFCC into a strong institution just like Akunyili did with NAFDAC.

                Nigeria can have strong institutions once people in authority and citizens alike take it as a responsibility to do the right thing irrespective of the posture of the President in power.

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Its really amazing that UNN does not offer Chemical Engineering, and this has been on for years, a fall-out of the inventions made during the nigerian civil war (1967-1970). Federal Government banned the course for many years. They say necessity is the mother of invention. In Biafra, Africa died. Although i hear that the ban has been lifted, i hope they will be able to replicate the feats of those desperate years. Chai

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