The Police Service Commission (PSC) has been accused of institutionalising the practice of promoting corruption and misconduct in the police by rewarding officers indicted for corruption and abuse, rather than bringing them to book.
According to the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN), the PSC ignored a report of investigation by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), which allegedly indicted Bala Hassan for “fraud and illegal auctioning of exhibit vehicles” while serving as CP Rivers.
The accused/owner of the vehicles, who was eventually discharged and acquitted of the charges for which he was charged to court and his cars impounded, had reportedly accused Bala of illegal auctioning of his three cars and buying one of them while the case was still pending.
“Now, despite his indictment and petitions calling for disciplinary action against Bala Hassan, the PSC went ahead to promote him to AIG (Assistant Inspector General) and has now further appointed him Force Secretary,” said the group coordinated by Okechukwu Nwanguma.
“What manner of an oversight agency is the PSC under Mike Okiro?”
