Recruitment crisis: DIG seeks injunction against sacking by PSC

The Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Training and
Development, Yakubu Jubrin, who was queried for misconduct, has
approached the National Industrial Court seeking an order
restraining the Police Service Commission from sacking or demoting
him.

The plaintiff also sought a declarative order of the court that
the commission could not subject him to further disciplinary
measures.

The DIG in an originating summons filed at the NIC in Abuja, by
his lawyer, Alex Izinyon (SAN), and obtained by our correspondent
on Monday, further prayed for an order that the defendant was not
vested with the power to determine whether the orders of the IG
were lawful or unlawful.

The commission had last month queried the DIG for masterminding
the disagreement between the PSC and the police over the
recruitment of 10,000 constables.

Following the insistence of the police on their rights to carry
out the recruitment exercise, the commission queried Jubrin for
releasing the names of successful candidates without its
permission.

The PSC also accused the DIG of making disparaging remarks
against the commission’s Chairman, Musiliu Smith and a member of
the board in charge of recruitment, Austin Braimoh.

However, Jubrin, who clocked the mandatory retirement age on
October 1, 2019, was prevented from responding to the query by the
IG who said the retiring DIG acted on his directives.

The summons filed by Jubrin read in part, “The plaintiff seeks
for the following reliefs: A declaration of the court that the
defendant (PSC) cannot sack, suspend, subject to further
disciplinary measures, dismiss, demote and terminate the flavoured
employment of the plaintiff who was acting in obedience of the
lawful orders of the Inspector-General of Police in accordance with
the provisions of Part II, Section 6 of Police Act and section 215
(2), constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as
amended.”

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