Former Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, has called on the Police Service Commission, PSC, and the Nigeria Police Force to work in harmony for national security.

Recall that the police had alleged irregularities and corruption in the recruitment of Constables by the PSC during the 2022/23 batch into the Nigeria Police Force.

In a statement made by Okiro today in Abuja, he said that the fight against insecurity would remain a mirage, unless the commission and the police worked in harmony to policing Nigeria with vigour.

According to him, what Nigerians desire now is how the country will exit the ravaging insecurity pervading the land and he implore both parties to eschew whatever be their perceived bitterness and embrace the fact that their jobs go hand in hand.

He added that their focus should be how to meet the overwhelming yearnings of the Nigerian people that can only happen when mutual respect exists between both parties.

He said that the lingering problem had done collateral damage to their public image, and ridiculed the international standing of Nigeria.

Okiro said that the powers of recruitment, discipline and promotion of police personnel other than the I-G, was vested in the PSC.

The former chairman of the PSC urged the commission to avoid over-flogging certain issues in the public domain.

He urged the leadership of the commission and police to meet and resolve their differences, and give peace and national security a chance.

Okiro appealed to both parties to put the matter behind and rekindle the much needed cordial relationship for the successful candidates to start training on time.

DAILY POST