PSC Warns Against Crowd Renting & Protests/: Demonstrations At Its Hqters In Abuja ...Insists aggrieved parties must follow due process
The Police Service Commission, PSC, has warned that although it will continue to ensure police officers are held accountable for their actions and inactions, it will not succumb to a disturbing and unfolding theatrics of crowd renting and demonstrations at the gate of its Corporate headquarters in Abuja.
By Ikechukwu Ani
The Police Service Commission, PSC, has warned that although it will continue to ensure police officers are held accountable for their actions and inactions, it will not succumb to a disturbing and unfolding theatrics of crowd renting and demonstrations at the gate of its Corporate headquarters in Abuja.
The Commission said aggrieved individuals or groups with genuine cases of police abuse should feel free to submit petitions, which would be treated and given the required attention.
Chairman of the Commission, DIG Hashimu Argungu, spoke while reacting when "an obviously rented crowd besieged its headquarters to demand for the setting up of a Special Investigation Panel, SIP, within 48 hours to investigate a case of criminal conspiracy, abuse of office, robbery, terrorism... by the DPO Shendam, Plateau State and the DCO."
Argungu noted that the aggrieved party had the right and freedom to submit its petitions but not the freedom to rent a crowd to magnify the allegations.
The PSC Chairman stressed that the Commission would not be intimidated by crowd renting and would subsequently not tolerate such abuse of privilege.
According to him, the Commission's headquarters is not an arena for demonstrations and advised that they should endeavour to follow laid down rules and regulations in the pursuit of their grievances. He advised that the aggrieved party should also have reported the matter to the state Commissioner of Police before besieging its office with card carrying demonstrators.
The group had alleged that on October 22 and 23, 2025 some hoodlums backed by "the Nigeria Police Force, including the DPO of Shendam, Bashiru Maisule, DCO, Jacob Ogbolu and almost 100 policemen ... disrupted our peace, robbed us and destroyed our houses"
The Commission has however officially written and directed the DPO, DCO and other officers of Shendam Police Division mentioned in the petition to respond to the weighty allegations.
The Chairman said the Commission would get to the root of the matter and ensure that justice prevails at the end of the day.
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