Senator representing Edo North, Adams Oshiomhole, has warned that the Senate must not serve as a rubber stamp for duplicative institutions.<\/h2>\n
Naija News<\/strong> reports that Oshiomhole made this known while opposing a bill seeking to establish a training institute for the Police Service Commission (PSC).<\/p>\n The bill, titled \u2018Police Service Commission Training Institute (Establishment) Bill, 2025\u2019, was presented during Thursday\u2019s plenary by Senator representing Oyo Central, Yunus Akintunde, on behalf of the chairman of the Senate Committee on police affairs, Abdulhamid Mallam-Madori.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cThat the Senate do receive and consider the report of the Committee on Police Affairs on the Police Service Commission Training Institute (Establishment) Bill, 2025 (SB. 564).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n In response, Oshiomhole opposed the bill, questioning the logic of establishing a training institute for a commission that employs few people and already has a limited operational scope.<\/p>\n The former governor and labour leader emphasised that the country should invest in training police officers and not the police service commission.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cThis house can\u2019t rubber stamp everything, Mr President, Sir. With profound respect, I think we have to be careful over multiplications and duplications of institutions that will add no value whatsoever.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWith due respect, I\u2019ll like to ask: beside the Nigeria Police Force, how many people are employed under the Police Service Commission besides the commissioners whose business is to regulate and oversight the affairs of recruitment, training for the Senate to set up a committee to establish an institute to train a commission which may sometimes not even exist?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIn the not-too-distant past, the idea of Police Service Commission was even abolished and they created the ministry of police affairs.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNow you have ministry of police affairs and they will train their people as civil servants, then you have police service commission to train who?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis country should invest in training police men and women and not police service commission.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n However, Akintunde clarified that the PSC is a constitutionally recognised body and has not been replaced or scrapped in favour of any ministry.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cPolice Service Commission is in existence. It was not cancelled to create the ministry of police affairs. There is quite a world of difference between the police force and the police service commission.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis Senate has passed a training institute for the Nigeria Police Force earlier this year. The one we are requesting for now is Police Service Commission Training Institute.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Bauchi Central Senator, Abdul Ningi, intervened, cautioning that the debate on the substance of the bill had come at the wrong time.<\/p>\n According to Ningi, the bill has gone through debates and public presentations, adding that the Senate can only accept the decisions taken at the various stages.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cWe must be guided by our rules. This is a bill at the second reading. The argument canvassed by Senator Adams Oshiomhole, as good as they look, have gone beyond that.<\/em><\/p>\n