SHOCKING REVELATION: Why IGBO May Not Produce Police IG Till 2036

The Authority - It has emerged that with the present appointments in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) no Igbo may be el­igible for appointment as In­spector-General of Police un­til 2036.

The Police Service Com­mission (PSC), the body vest­ed with the powers to recruit, promote and discipline police officers, said yesterday that two of the serving 24 Assistant In­spectors-General of Police were Igbo.

A statement from the PSC, which was a reaction to The AUTHORITY’s lead story on Thursday, named Mr. Paul Okafor (AIG Zone 11, Osogbo), from Anambra State and Mr. Charles Ugomuoh (AIG Animal

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 Branch of Medical Services), from Imo State, as two of the 24 serving AIGs from the South East geopolitical zone.

In addition, said the PSC, “there are more than six Com­missioners of Police from the Igbo extraction”. But the Com­mission, in the statement signed by Ms. Comfort Obi, did not mention the names of the CPs and their commands.

However, three retired top police officers, in separate inter­views, told The AUTHORITY that with the present composi­tion of the police top command, it would be difficult for an Igbo police officer to become the In­spector General of Police “in the next 20 years”.

Said one of them: “The tra­dition is for the President to ap­point the IGP from the crop of officers not lower than an AIG. Now, we have a situation where in the very unlikely event the President wants to appoint an IG from Igboland, the conven­ient excuse will be that there is no eligible candidate from the zone.”

Said another: “The Nigeria Police Force, like most security organisations, was designed to favour the north. The only Po­lice Academy (which is equiva­lent to a university) is in Kano. The Nigeria Defence Acade­my (NDA) is in Kaduna. Nige­ria Army Depot is in Zaria. The Command and Staff College is in Jaji. The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) is in Kuru.”

He continued: “See, ap­pointments and promotions in the police have been skewed to favour the north. The very day MD Abubakar was retiring as Inspector-General of Police, having clocked 35 years in the police, his luckiest course mates from the south were retiring as Assistant Commissioners of Po­lice. I know some persons who joined the police the same day with MD Abubakar retiring as Chief Superintendents of Police,” stressing, “this was a man who joined the police with a Teach­ers’ Grade 2 certificate.”

He also stated the instance of Mr. Hafiz Ringim, who, he said, joined the police with a diplo­ma certificate and yet rose to be­come IG even when his course mates from the south managed to retire as Deputy Commission­ers of Police.

However, the PSC statement noted that Dr. Okiro knows more than enough that career progression in the Nigeria Po­lice force is not based on feder­al Character.

“He knows, and has superin­tended over a Commission that has continued to place premium on merit, seniority and availabil­ity of vacancies as bases for pro­motion.

“For years now, promotion in the Nigeria Police Force from the rank of Constable to AIG has been strictly based on the above criteria and not on federal char­acter or any other consideration. Federal Character is used only at the three entry points into the Nigeria Police Force – Consta­ble, Cadet Inspector and Cadet ASP,” noted the statement.

“It is necessary to state that the spread of senior police of­ficers remains flexible as offic­ers are promoted as their seniors retire or exit the service through retirement or death. And since promotions are based on mer­it and seniority, any tribe at any time could dominate the cad­res in the senior hierarchy of the force.

“The Commission will re­main resolute in its commitment to equity, fairness and merit in its management of its constitu­tional responsibilities and will also be guided by the rule of law and fear of God,” PSC declared.

Igbo Are Bad Politicians, Should Fashola Were Igbo, He Would've Left Tinubu - Orji Kalu

A former Governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, has said Igbo people are better traders than politicians.

Kalu said the lack of understanding of politics and the indiscipline of Igbo politicians were responsible for what he called the political backwardness of the South-East.

He said the political fortune of the Igbo would have been better had their politicians approached politics like the Yoruba.

Kalu said Igbo politicians had a lot to learn from how a former Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, and his predecessor, Bola Tinubu, handled their differences during Fashola’s second term.

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He said things would have been different if his own successor, Theodore Orji, had the same approach as Fashola.

Kalu, who said most of the Igbo elite were selfish, said the Igbo should blame themselves and not the Federal Government for their woes.

The Editor-in-Chief of The Interview magazine, Mr. Azu Ishiekwene, in a statement of Monday, quoted Kalu as saying this in a recent interview he granted the magazine.

According to Ishiekwene, Kalu told The Interview magazine that, “Let me tell you, there were more problems between (Bola) Tinubu and (Babatunde) Fashola than there were between me and Theodore Orji. But it is the discipline of the Yoruba that kept them at bay.

“The Igbo have no discipline in terms of politics. They are very good traders; they’re good in anything they do, but they don’t understand politics.”

Kalu recalled a conversation he had with President Muhammadu Buhari, where the President wondered aloud “why previous high-profile Igbo appointees had done nothing for the region.”

According to Ishiekwene, Kalu barred his mind on the agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra as well as the travail of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

 He also spoke on “his relationship with former President Ibrahim Babangida and former Governor Ikedim Ohakim; the recent statement of former Governor Peter Obi; and allegations that while he governed Abia for eight years, his mother ruled,” Ishiekwene said

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'My People Are Senseless, My People Are Indiscipline', Joe Igbokwe Talks Hard In Igbo/Yoruba Comparison

Like the Late Fela Anikulapo African beat popular rhythm; "my people are useless, my peoples are senseless, my people are indiscipline ..., Joe Igbokwe remind one of this legendary song in an alleged quote by him on the comparison of Igbo and Yoruba politicians.

The truth often said to be bitter, could this be a 'bitter truth' from Joe Igbowe, an Igboman APC Chieftain in Lagos State?

Bellow is the excerpt from quotes reportedly by him:

"The Yoruba nation I know has been in the opposition even since the inception of Nigeria and yet they are not the worst in Nigeria. After the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential elections won by Moshood Abiola, the powers that be tried to console the Yoruba by appointing Ernest Shonekan the head of the interim government. Did Yoruba accept Shonekan? No, they did not. They did not come out on the streets with Gbedu Drums to celebrate Yoruba and Chief Shonekan.

"Yoruba proudly told the powers that be that you can only be the Head of State in Nigeria through two methods: either through an election or through a successful coup d’état. In the case of Shonekan, he did not ascend to power through either of the above processes. He was therefore rejected by the Yoruba. Now, if it were the Igbo, would they have reasoned this way?"

"I doubt it. In the struggle for June 12, Abiola was put in detention, and his wife killed. Several Yoruba people were in detention and some hounded abroad. Abiola was eventually killed. But did the Yoruba go to war or resort to self-determination? No, they did not. They fought back using common sense and the power of ideas."

"In 1998 when the presidency was zoned to the South-West because the late MKO Abiola has paid the supreme price, the Yoruba preferred Olu Falae but the powers that be forced Obasanjo on Nigeria. Now did the Yoruba accept Obasanjo because he is a Yoruba man? They did not."

"This unique race rejected Obasanjo for the eight years he was in office, from 1999 to 2007. To date the Yoruba still believe that Obasanjo wasted their eight years. OBJ was rejected even in his own ward, in his local government, and in the whole of the Western Region. That is the Yoruba nation for you. Can the Igbo do this? I doubt it." 

"After the 2003 elections, the PDP stole all the states in the South-West, leaving only Lagos because they were afraid of the trouble Lagosians will give them. The former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, fought back like a wounded lion with his committed associates to reclaim almost all the States in the South-West. He did not stop there; he spread his intimidating political tentacles across Nigeria, forming alliances across building networks and bridges, and the result is what we saw on Saturday, March 28, and April 11, 2015.

Now, can any leader in the South-East achieve this feat? Where is the character? Where is the courage? Where is the wisdom and understanding? Where is the common sense? Where is the discipline? Where is the capacity and capability?"

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