Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Monday, August 31, 2009

Political maturity

It would have been helpful if Mr. Osayande had explained (or if journalist Chizoba Ogbeche had reported) what he meant by "politically mature." However, it seems he was referring to corruption.


Police Decentralisation - Country Not Politically Mature
The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mr. Parry Osayande, DIG (rtd) has said that Nigeria was not politically mature for decentralisation of its police force...

Contrary to calls that the police be decentralised, the commission chairman argued that the system could be abused given the disposition of Nigerian politicians, but however, acknowledged that in a federalism country like Nigeria, there should be a federal, state, and local police...

According to him, having being a member of the police reform committee which spelt out guidelines for the on-going reforms of the force, which would make for easier and effective implementation of the process, stating that there was a sustained effort to right the damages done to the police force by long years of military rule...

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