‘PSC by no means directed IG’s retirement’

‘psc never directed ig’s retirement’

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has mentioned it’s past its bounds to order the retirement of Inspector-Common of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun.

The fee mentioned it had been inundated with calls, messages, and stories on the standing of the IGP, following its resolution that each one law enforcement officials who’ve served for 35 years or attained the age of 60 ought to proceed on speedy retirement in keeping with the nation’s current legal guidelines.

A press release yesterday in Abuja by PSC’s spokesperson Ikechukwu Ani mentioned the fee wished to state that it doesn’t have “the constitutional powers to find out the appointment or exit of the Inspector-Common of Police”.

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The assertion defined the remit of its powers within the assertion revealed in extenso hereunder: “The Police Service Fee is among the Federal Govt our bodies established underneath Part 153(m) of the 1999 Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended. By advantage of Paragraph 30, Half 1 of the Third Schedule to the Structure and Clause 6 (1) of the Police Service Fee (Institution) Act, 2001, the fee is charged with the obligations of appointment, promotion, dismissal and exercising disciplinary management over individuals holding places of work within the Nigeria Police Drive (besides the Inspector Common of Police).

“The regulation is obvious on the mandate of the fee and it doesn’t lengthen to the Inspector Common of Police who’s an appointee of Mr. President with the recommendation of the Police Council.

“The fee, at its first extraordinary assembly of the sixth administration board on Friday, January 31, 2025, solely thought of and took resolution on the regularisation of the date of first appointment of Cadet ASPs/Inspector Drive Entrants. This has nothing to do with the Inspector Common of Police or his workplace.

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