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IG Egbetokun counters PSC’s directive, orders retired police chiefs to remain in office
Mr Egbetokun, in a document obtained by Peoples Gazette Wednesday evening, countered the order.


Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun (Credit: Olumuyiwa Adejobi)
Contrary to the decision of the Police Service Commission ordering the immediate retirement of senior police officers who have either exceeded 35 years in service or are above 60, inspector general of police Kayode Egbetokun has ordered concerned officers to stay in office.

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Mr Egbetokun, in a document obtained by Peoples Gazette Wednesday evening, countered the order, asking all the police-related departments to stay action pending further directive.

“RE: Police Service Commission decision at its 1st extraordinary meeting of the 6th management board on the regularization of first appointment of cadet ASPs /Inspectors force entrants ref. Mylet No CH:8400/FS/FHQ/ABJ/VOL2/292 dated 1st February 2025 X Inspector General of Police strongly directs you stay action on let under ref pending further directive above for your strict compliance acknowledge receipt please,” said the document dated February 5, 2025.

Last week, PSC’s spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, in a statement, said the commission’s order followed its review of its earlier stance from the 24th plenary meeting in September 2017, allowing force entrants to use their date of enlistment instead of their initial appointment date.

Mr Ani noted the commission has reversed this decision, citing its inconsistency with Public Service Rule No. 020908 (i & ii), which mandates retirement upon spending 35 years in service or reaching 60 years of age.

The PSC, however, clarified that it lacks the constitutional authority to determine the appointment or retirement of Mr Egbetokun.

If allowed to stay, Mr Egbetokun’s latest counter-order invalidates PSC’s statutory responsibility to appoint, promote and dismiss police officers in line with its Establishment Act.

Mr Egbetokun’s continued stay in office as Inspector General has generated heated controversies in the country, with Nigerians saying it is at variance with extant laws.

Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore was dragged to court for calling Mr Egbetokun illegal as the Force argued that the appointment of IGP and his extension of tenure was constitutional.

Mr Egbetokun — born September 1964 and clocked 60 last September — was enlisted into the Force in 1990 and appointed the Inspector General by President Bola Tinubu in June 2023.

https://gazettengr.com/ig-egbetokun-counters-pscs-directive-orders-retired-police-chiefs-to-remain-in-office/

Nlfpmod

This is crazy

Indecision and Confusion everywhere...

This is chop,I chop.The IG refused to retire how can he retire others.

Life in the Agbado Cage

Lol.

Only in Nigeria will a member of an institution be more powerful than the institution that made him.

Video confusion, Sowore has bursted the bubble that will take the illegal IGP down. Either way a precedent will be setted
It's no longer he who will go to equity must first come with a clean hand, but whatever tribal coloration dictate .

What is the issue with administrative impunity and lawlessness in Nigeria sef? What really is wrong with this nation? Power drunk fellas everywhere.

If he’s not going to retire, the same should go for commissioner of police in every state

Illegality begets illegality

Isn't the IGP supposed to be under the PSC?
Confusion everywhere

Gotocourt:
Previous thread

https://www.nairaland.com/8335593/egbetokun-orders-retirement-officers-simon

IG Egbetokun counters PSC’s directive, orders retired police chiefs to remain in office
Mr Egbetokun, in a document obtained by Peoples Gazette Wednesday evening, countered the order.


Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun (Credit: Olumuyiwa Adejobi)
Contrary to the decision of the Police Service Commission ordering the immediate retirement of senior police officers who have either exceeded 35 years in service or are above 60, inspector general of police Kayode Egbetokun has ordered concerned officers to stay in office.

PauseUnmute
Fullscreen
Mr Egbetokun, in a document obtained by Peoples Gazette Wednesday evening, countered the order, asking all the police-related departments to stay action pending further directive.

“RE: Police Service Commission decision at its 1st extraordinary meeting of the 6th management board on the regularization of first appointment of cadet ASPs /Inspectors force entrants ref. Mylet No CH:8400/FS/FHQ/ABJ/VOL2/292 dated 1st February 2025 X Inspector General of Police strongly directs you stay action on let under ref pending further directive above for your strict compliance acknowledge receipt please,” said the document dated February 5, 2025.

Last week, PSC’s spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, in a statement, said the commission’s order followed its review of its earlier stance from the 24th plenary meeting in September 2017, allowing force entrants to use their date of enlistment instead of their initial appointment date.

Mr Ani noted the commission has reversed this decision, citing its inconsistency with Public Service Rule No. 020908 (i & ii), which mandates retirement upon spending 35 years in service or reaching 60 years of age.

The PSC, however, clarified that it lacks the constitutional authority to determine the appointment or retirement of Mr Egbetokun.

If allowed to stay, Mr Egbetokun’s latest counter-order invalidates PSC’s statutory responsibility to appoint, promote and dismiss police officers in line with its Establishment Act.

Mr Egbetokun’s continued stay in office as Inspector General has generated heated controversies in the country, with Nigerians saying it is at variance with extant laws.

Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore was dragged to court for calling Mr Egbetokun illegal as the Force argued that the appointment of IGP and his extension of tenure was constitutional.

Mr Egbetokun — born September 1964 and clocked 60 last September — was enlisted into the Force in 1990 and appointed the Inspector General by President Bola Tinubu in June 2023.

https://gazettengr.com/ig-egbetokun-counters-pscs-directive-orders-retired-police-chiefs-to-remain-in-office/

Nlfpmod

Fake news

Ahmback:
Isn't the IGP supposed to be under the PSC?
Confusion everywhere

The IGP is not under the PSC.

Paraman:
The IGP is not under the PSC.

Why have two agencies overseeing the same organisation (police).
I've (absent-mindedly) noticed the continuous fight between NPF led by the IGP and Police Service Commission.

This issue should be resolve by dissolving one.

Tinubu used his evil senate president Akpabio to destroy our constitution and gradually the repercussions has started manifesting.
Because of greediness tinubu amended the constitution to favour only one person, unfortunate to him he can't realize the implications of his action in the future. The constitution stated that every civil servants must retire on reaching 60 years or 35yrs in service. Tinubu and his advisers are illiterates I swear, he thought that he can amend the law because of one person.
If you still want the services of Egbetokun why not retire him then appoint him as a civilian into another position. The drugs that tpain is taking stopped him from realising that Egbetokun has course-mate.
Tinubu greediness is setting this country into a dangerous future.

The worst illiterates in this country are the senators who only cares about what will enter their pockets instead of how Nigeria will grow.
If you want them to make a law that will kill all their constituents they will make that law now now( shap shap) as long as you tell them everyone of them will go home with fifty million naira (#50,000,000 )

LMAOOOOOOOOO and dem say na dem get sense pass o