The continued disagreement over last year’s recruitment of 10,000 constables into the police force has compelled the Police Service Commission (PSC) to report Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The commission was said to have written to President Buhari on Friday asking him to direct the IGP to obey a Court of Appeal judgement delivered in September.
The judgement affirmed the PSC’s jurisdiction to recruit constables into the police force, and nullified the president’s mandate to the IGP to conduct the recruitment.
By the judgement, the second-highest court in the land also overturned an earlier Federal High Court judgement that said that the PSC did not have jurisdiction over the contentious recruitment.
But the IGP wrote to the commission saying it would not hand over the recruitment, compelling the commission to write to the president.
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The Herald learnt that in the letter to the president, the PSC warned that the IGP was setting a bad precedent by failing to obey the court order when it has yet to secure a stay of execution.
An official in the commission quoted by The Punch said, “The IG, the chief law officer of the federation, has decided to disobey the judgment of a competent court of law and has yet to secure a stay of execution. The commission obeyed the decision of the lower court even when it had appealed the ruling.
“The IG is still insisting on the judgment of the lower court and the Police Act; he is setting a bad precedent because he enjoys the supervision of people with arms. The commission has, however, written to the President to call the IG to order (sic).”