The planned probe of the recent promotions in the Police by the Senate Committee on Police Affairs is as a result of allegations of lopsidedness in the exercise, Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Abu Ibrahim, has said.

The committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday on the allegations.

Senator Ibrahim told reporters in Abuja that Police Inspector General Solomon Arase, has already submitted the list of promoted police personnel in line with the demand of the committee.

The list was submitted to the Committee last Wednesday.

Senator Ibrahim had demanded the list of those recently promoted by the leadership of the Nigeria Police Force following allegations of lopsidedness in the exercise raised by some officers.

Those behind the allegation of lopsidedness in the police promotions claimed that the exercise was tilted against the northern part of the country.

They also claimed that the exercise lacked equity and fairness in the way and manner the promotion exercise was carried out by the leadership of the Police.

The aggrieved police officers specifically accused the Inspector General of Police of favouring police officers from southern part of the country at the expense of their Northern counterparts.

Senator Ibrahim, who confirmed receipt of the list, said that his committee met on Wednesday with Arase.

The police boss, he said, gave him a breakdown of those promoted state by state and zone by zone.

He said that the list also included police officers recently converted.

Armed with the list, Ibrahim said that he has summoned a meeting of his committee to deliberate the content of the list.

He declined to disclose the breakdown of promotions as contained in the list insisting to study it first and brief members of the Police Affairs Committee.

The lawmaker assured that after his committee might have deliberated on the content of the list, details of the list would be released to Nigerians to see.

For now, he said: “There is no cause for apprehension.”

On the 2016 budget provision for the police, Ibrahim said that the allocation of N19 billion of a total N53 billion to the Ministry of Interior is too low for any meaningful transformation to take place in the Nigeria Police.

The Katsina- born lawmaker said he is aware of some basic problems facing the police which need a lot of improvement.

He said: “Obviously, with the present poor situation of police preparedness to meet the challenges of our time, we certainly need to do something concrete and urgently if we are to overcome the everyday threat to the lives and property of Nigerians.”

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You are probing police promotion but refuse the question buharis lopsided appointment that is tilted toward the north.
NORTH IS NIGERIAN PROBLEM.

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See this is why this country is a mess, Of all the shlt wrong with the Policing in Nigeria, Promotions for one's regional brothers is what the useless senate wants to tackle.

Lol. I thought promotion comes as a result of diligence and superb service, mediocrity don finish us.

Ohk

You see...

Everything in Nigeria is loopsided and getting worst under APC.

Political appointment, loopsided.

Corruption probing, loopsided against one party

Police promotion loopsided.

Sharing of oil wells, a region also heavily benefited.

It's high time we renegotiated Nigeria.

Buhary, please revisit the last confab report.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Shalom!

This APC administration is a scam. Where is the youth employment they continue lamenting during election campaigns? We the youths are still observing sha. All we hear everyday is efcc arrest this arrest that, the earlier pmb knows that youths are not smiling the better for him.

Once it's against the north it will be reviewed but if Pro -NORTH you dare not talk about it. Confab reports, who has ever mentioned it??

i smell pussy

Do the needful.vote!!!!!

Quota system,the bane of nigeria's backwardness.So people must be promoted equally based on their region and not on their qualifications?well i blame the south.In times like this,the north unites together but a yoruba man would be happy that an igbo or ijaw is not promoted and vice versa.smh

i smell p u s s y

they should also probe their brother BUUBUU for appointing northerners while neglecting southerners

why do these people think they own Nigeria?

I wanted to say something completely tribalistic, but i changed my mind.

hmmm Senate

Ok

Hmmm #noted

Nigeria smh

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Northerners must be the next IGP ooooo, at all cost. I think promotion should base on merit.

That's it


Pressid stopped because North was not favoured
2nd Niger bridge stopped but dams in North continued
Loopsided appointment continues no probe

And yoruba will claiming sophisticated



Mcheew

There is a country call Nigeria.....



Misplaced priority, among important issues bothering this country, this is what the Senate's decide to probe...



Sorry for this country.

arbitter:
See this is why this country is a mess, Of all the shlt wrong with the Policing in Nigeria, Promotions for one's regional brothers is what the useless senate wants to tackle.

This ppl just dey waste our money sha......

It's true arase is stupid by from all sides in his office no any Muslim two xtian notherners taraba and benue only... wtf

Rudderless probe(maniacal) govt. No plans , no policy. 10months gone. Over 70 already dead due to Lassa and not even a word of concern from the govt. What if the promotion was by merit? I didn't know that promotions in the Nigerian civil service are to be based on quota system and not merit.
Change indeed !

Dis north pple ona too wori oo

make i hear word.

Useless leaders.

J

One day, one Islamic-related problem