Idiko1:


Lawyer Muhammed Ndakudu Adam, you are one of the reasons Nigeria is termed basket of fools. Mallam Muhammadu Buhari is the CSO of Nigeria. No wonder Nigeria is the playground of the bandits.

Idiko1:


Lawyer Muhammed Ndakudu Adam, you are one of the reasons Nigeria is termed basket of fools. Mallam Muhammadu Buhari is the CSO of Nigeria. No wonder Nigeria is the playground of the bandits.

Kzinne:
rubbish. I wonder who wrote this? How can you say been CSO is merely ceremonial? Can you imagine such thrash. And who put this on the front page??

marv1:
Products of quota system lawyers and SAN like malami

Nauttyprof:
Some lawyers are the reason for Nigeria being backward in every area. Just imagine this statement of the Governor being a ceremonial CSO but the IGP has control over all States. Now, the question is, what is the position of the constitution on this matter? Did the constitution which should always be his guide in the profession say the Governor is a ceremonial CSO while the IGP has every right to cause chaos in any state? Or is he speaking from the terrible political view in Nigeria? Where the FG just want to be in charge of everything without showing true Federalism.


Why are the governors part of the Nigerian Police Council with the President being the Head?

Everyone just want to say something without speaking from constitution but speaking as politicians.

gnhpowerhouse:
Those Judges at the Supreme Court that gave that Ruling are heartless ...

Upworkwriter007:

You might not like his point, but the position of CSO is mere ceremonial. Governor's have reiterated that point many times, they need their own police force

LegalWolf:


Exactly, while the Supreme Court is a Minister of State for the National Assembly (which is Gbaja) and in turn commander of the Nigerian Immigration Authority that is secretary to Nigeria Customs

Idiko1:


Lawyer Muhammed Ndakudu Adam, you are one of the reasons Nigeria is termed basket of fools. Mallam Muhammadu Buhari is the CSO of Nigeria. No wonder Nigeria is the playground of the bandits.

CSTRR:
A mere appointee of the president is Superior to an elected governor?

An ELECTED governor?

You are mad.

In a federal system with states autonomy, the only agency superior to the governor is the supreme Court, not even the president.

A governor can take the president to the supreme Court if he feels aggreived.

being:
Interestingly, he's correct. According to the police structure an instruction from the IG supercedes an instruction from a governor. Whether that should change is d only debatable matter. But as at now the IG posts CP to states to receive directives from d governors but he the IG can overrule those governors' directives

A mere appointee by the President supersedes an ELECTED GOVERNOR? Wetin all of una dey take abi smoke lately in this country? Una comments dey kill me with laughter. Nigerians don’t really know their left from right

MansoryMX:


God bless you for this comment. We have really lost it in this part of the world. We don’t know how to practice Democracy we adopted from the West. Walahi!

Tingotoe:
There's no country in the world where the federal police isn't under the direct operational command of the head of government. The FBI in America answer to the president and not any local authority

Nauttyprof:


Understand my point also. Is this from the position of the constitution or politics in Nigeria?

Kzinne:
yes but doesn't mean the cso position is merely ceremonial. Do you know that the governor of a state holds regular weekly security meetings with all the heads of security agencies posted to that state? So in a way he has a form of contro6. But that control is checked

Nauttyprof:


Understand my point also. Is this from the position of the constitution or politics in Nigeria?

Upworkwriter007:

The constitution declared them as CSO, but that same constitution says there shall only be 1 police force, and set the organogram for how the police functions. It didn't give a single power to governors as it pertains state security, yet declared them as CSO.

babaolofin:


That is not the position of the Constitution. That is not the position of governor under federalism. It is not in the Constitution that the Governor shall be a Ceremonial Chief Security Officer of the State. The reality on ground is that the Commissioner of Police takes instructions from IGP. It was very clear during Jonathan / Amaechi rift.

Donald Duke some years back in one of his memoirs while in government spoke briefly about this. The implications is that this has made Commissioner of Police sent to some Southern States very rich as the Governor has to bribe his way with money and fixed assets for them to work together. This is very pathetic.


What the Mallam Lawyer said is the bitter truth. The State Commissioner of Police is not appointed by the Governor. He is only posted to work in the State. The governor must take care of him handsomely for them to work together. They are working together. That's the bitter truth.

The Yoruba elites should support Prof Akintoye and IOO.

Most persons don't know that according to the Constitution of Nigeria the Nigerian police is subordinate to the Inspector General (IG) and the IG is under the authority of the President..
The governors in Nigeria are officially the Chief Security Officers of their various states but do not have power on the Nigerian police as it's vested almost entirely with the Inspector General of Police..The inspector general of police is accountable to the President...
Simple as that..

Nauttyprof:


The State Commissioner of Police is not appointed by the Governor but the Governor can reject any Commissioner of Police sent to his state. This happened in Lagos State and of recent in Ogun state where the Governor rejected Edgar as CP for Ogun state. So, tell me if the Governor is still a ceremonial CSO. We don't practice true Federalism and this is the truth.

Why do we have the Nigerian Police Council with the 36 Governors included if they are not important.

orisa37:



THE IGP IS A SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SECURITY AND IN THE SAME WAY AS THE CURRENT MINISTERS ARE SECRETARIES OF STATES TO THE PRESIDING FEDERAL GOVERNOR (MR PRESIDENT). THE GOVERNORS ARE THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPAL MINISTERS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

Kzinne:
yes but doesn't mean the cso position is merely ceremonial. Do you know that the governor of a state holds regular weekly security meetings with all the heads of security agencies posted to that state? So in a way he has a form of contro6. But that control is checked

ivolt:

Don't be confused, the governors are not ministers in any guise.
They head an independent level of government.

Yankee101:
Of course not

The IGP is not superior, but still, can't take orders from state governor directly


The powers of the federation are derived from the states, any constitutional ratification is done by state assemblies

If not for the north playing for its own, let all the states unite and see which laws can't be changed or a president removed talkless of an IGP

babaolofin:


Firstly, rejection of Commissioner of Police by the Governor doesn't mean the Governor has power to appoint another Commissioner of Police. The IGP was just being magnanimous by sending another one so that the Governor would not put blame on the IGP if there is security breakdown. He was not under compulsion to send another one. Let me ask you a question; If Amaechi had rejected a Commissioner of Police sent to Rivers during his rift with Jonathan, do you think the Commissioner would be replaced? We both know the answer.

Nigerian Police Council membership of the governors does not give governors any power rather it is just to review security situations and how to help the Police .

I am trying to get where I kept a memoir by Donald Duke that touched a Police Commissioner sent to a State ( not Cross River). That was during Obj. The governor first settled (money & fixed asset) the Commissioner on resumption in the State for anticipated cordial working relationship. We all know other things will follow also.

babaolofin:


He revealed a bitter truth. He said the Governor being the CSO of the State is merely Ceremonial. In reality, what he said is that the State governor is not the CSO of the State.

ArewaNorth:




The military did not write any constitution — apart from promulgating the enabling decrees.
On November 11, 1998, Abdulsalami inaugurated the Constitution Debate Co-ordinating Committee (CDCC) to “pilot the debate, co-ordinate and collate views and recommendations canvassed by individuals and groups and submit report not later than 31 December 1998”. It was not headed by a soldier but by Justice Niki Tobi, with Dr. Suleiman Kurmo as deputy chairman. There was no single military man on the committee. They went round the country to collect memoranda from the public through town hall meetings in Benin, Enugu, Jos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Kano, Ibadan, Lagos and Sokoto. They excluded military formations.

After all the frenetic debates — up and down, north and south, east and west — the Tobi committee submitted its report to the military government. Tobi said: “In the light of the memoranda and the oral presentation on the 1995 Draft Constitution, it is clear that Nigerians basically opt for the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments. They want it, and they have copiously given their reasons for their choice in the different memoranda and oral presentations.
So they recommended to the Provisional Ruling Council the adoption of the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments from the 1995 Draft Constitution.” Abdulsalami accepted the recommendation.
When the 1999 constitution was finally published, three of them sat down and placed it side by side with the 1979 constitution. They then did a clause-by-clause analysis. The trio were: Mr. Victor Ifijeh (the current MD of The Nation newspaper who was THISDAY editor then), Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu (SA to Senate President Bukola Saraki who was THISDAY politics editor at the time) and THISDAY features editor. They did a word-for-word reading and laughed themselves to stupor: this is pure plagiarism of the 1979 constitution!
There were only a few notable differences in the two documents, such as the 13% derivation for oil-producing states and the number of states in the federation. While the 1979 constitution spoke about 19 states, 1999 said 36 states, logically. They were only reflecting the realities on ground. FEDECO in the 1979 document changed to INEC in 1999 constitution therefore it can be concluded that the 1999 constitution is a replica of the 1979 constitution.
The biggest irony abt the contentious nature of our constitution is the vicious condemnation of the 1999 constitution by some prominent Nigerians who mostly took part in the previous constitution starting committees or got favour & protection by the system.


Those who believed that the constitution was imposed or dictated by military are just insulting the wisdom and character of their forefathers for accepting what is imposed on them by chairing the committee and drafting what they reject!