New PSC Chairman Assumes Duty

New chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), DIG Hashimu Argungu (rtd), has assumed duty at the Commission’s corporate headquarters in Jabi, Abuja, with a commitment to driving a deliberate knowledge acquisition programme for the staff.

The new Board of the commission, recently appointed by the president, has DIG Hashimu Argungu (rtd) as chairman, DIG Taiwo Lekanu (rtd) as member and Chief Onyemuche Nnamani as secretary.

The commission’s spokesperson, Ikechukwu Ani, said the new chairman, member, and secretary, who made up the board, also flagged off an innovative programme, “the Arena of Knowledge”, a weekly lecture series for the commission’s staff.

Meanwhile, Argungu, in his introductory remarks at the training programme, said that since nobody has a monopoly of knowledge, the commission needed to meet weekly to share knowledge on the different areas of the staff’s daily work.

He noted that he has always introduced the “Arena of Knowledge ” in all the places he has worked, adding that the nation’s civil service needs knowledge for improved service delivery.

While presenting a paper titled: “The Innocent Victim: Wrongful Garnishment Against Police Service Commission”, the commission chairman examined pending garnishee proceedings against the commission regarding an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria where training money was lodged.

He also examined the grounds that the judgment creditors have executed wrongful garnishments against the commission other than the actual judgment debtor.

He recommended that the commission’s legal department should urgently liaise with the commissioner of police, Legal Services of the Nigeria Police Force, to trace the civil suits in question with the view to ascertain the genuineness of the claims and also to urgently liaise with the necessary organisations to see the conclusion against the order absolute.