Re: Abba Kyari: The Inspector General of Police must resign

I read your editorial where you called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali, to resign. You rendered a public duty with the hope that a very important institution, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), must be run according to the provisions of the law, equity and justice. Though you meant well, your call was […]

I read your editorial where you called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali, to resign.

You rendered a public duty with the hope that a very important institution, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), must be run according to the provisions of the law, equity and justice.

Though you meant well, your call was however misdirected. It is not in the character of a Nigerian public servant to resign over a significant failure that hurts society. When correctional centres were overrun numerous times, many Nigerians called on the  Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, to resign. He replied them point blank: “I will not resign.” 

In one of the breaches, over 3,000 inmates escaped and vanished into thin air.

Aregbesola and Alkali were all appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Unfortunately, Buhari has elevated political expediency over exemplary service/conduct. So Buhari will not sack the IGP. 

When the tenure of former service chiefs expired, Buhari retained them even though their stay started yielding diminishing returns.

The fault is ours; that we cannot control our political leaders, the president inclusive.

Abdullah Musa wrote from Kano