Confusion as 40 police top shots reject voluntary retirement

Cross section of Deputy Inspector General of Police taking decision

Efforts by the Police Service Commission, PSC, and the Police High Command to reposition and reform the Nigeria Police Force appear to have run into a hitch as over 40 senior Police officers, including Assistant Inspectors General of Police, Commissioners of Police and Deputy Commissioners of Police, shortlisted for retirement have rejected directives to apply for voluntary retirement from the Force.
This development has made it difficult for the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar and the Police Service Commission to carry out the postings of the 14 newly promoted Assistant Inspectors General of Police who were decorated between last weekend and Wednesday this week.

Vanguard investigations showed that following the elevation of junior Commissioners of Police to the ranks of DIGs and AIGs, due to the present IG’s resolve to transform the Police, there was need for members of the old order to give way, hence the PSC directed the older officers like AIGs, CPs and DCPs, to apply voluntarily for retirement as their services were no longer needed.
But the senior officers who felt they did no wrong and that it was no fault of theirs that their juniors were promoted above them, told the PSC that it was wrong for the commission to ask them to put in for retirement because they did not say they don’t want to work under the new dispensation.
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