Police Reform: Anxiety Grips Acting IG, Top Officers •As Petitions Flood PSC Panel
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Written by Jacob Segun-Olatunji, Abuja
Saturday, 04 February 2012

ShareFear has reportedly gripped senior top police officers, including

the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. M.D. Abubakar over the planned unprecedented shake-up in the Nigeria Police.

Saturday Tribune learnt that anxiety followed scores of petitions signed and supported with court affidavits as well as anonymous ones being received daily against senior officers by the Parry Osayande panel on re-organisation of the Nigeria Police recently put in place by President Goodluck Jonathan.

“We have scores of petitions flooding the committee on daily basis against the officers even including the Acting Inspector General of Police, Abubakar himself, most of the petitions were being directed against senior officers especially those in the ranks of Deputy Commissioners, Commissioners and Assistant Inspectors General of Police, detailing their various offences with necessary data to back up their claims against the officers,” a source close to the committee told Saturday Tribune in Abuja on Friday.

According to the source,”the panel has commenced work and the members are working round the clock to meet the deadline given to it by the President.”

The source disclosed that some of the affected officers with grievous allegations would be invited to appear before the committee apart from scrutinising their service records before a final decision is taken against any officer.

The source also hinted that the panel had been able to establish prima facie case against some senior officers, who might be shown the way out of the police.

Investigations from the various police formations across the country and the Force Headquarters, Abuja as at Friday revealed that all was not well within the rank and file of the police based on feelers from the committee.

It was gathered that while some of the concerned officers had started lobbying their godfathers to save their jobs, others had resorted to spiritual help from various sources.

A very senior police officer at the Force Headquarters in Abuja who spoke in confidence with Saturday Tribune declared that the imminent shake-up, if religiously carried out, would give the country the needed ideal police force.

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