 Staff of the Police Service Commission have taken their protests to the National Assembly, calling for a halt to the interference in its powers and functions by the Nigerian police. The protesters stormed the National Assembly in Abuja, carrying placards of various inscriptions to draw the attention of relevant authorities to the plight of the Commission. According to them, the commandant of the Police Service Commission, which is recruitment, permission and discipline of police officers, has been resolved by the police force, with the aid of current chairman and former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Liu Smith, the chairman of the Nigerian Civil Service Commission unit, Adebayo Antony, and his vice chairman, Mbanugo Nidim. Although the union took the matter to both the High Court and the Appeal Court, where it got a favorable judgment, the police had continued to disregard the court judgments. Consider this Police Service Commission is a constitutionally suited body to interfere in this matter with the Inspector General of Police and the Nigerian Police Force, because over time they have been interfering in our mandates. That is our constitutional mandate. So that is basically the issue of recruitment. We have three commandments, recruitment, promotion and discipline of all police officers in the exception of the IGP. But over time, since 2019, they have been interfering in this issue, where Police Service Commission had gone to courts, High Courts and then Supreme Courts, Appeal Courts rather. We won our case in Appeal Courts, and ever since then, they still do not want to step aside on this mandate. They have been interfering, like I said, on this mandate. So the Police Service Commission staff think it's the right time to retrieve our mandates, and that's why we're out here, to make the world, to hear us, the public to hear us, the National Assembly, the Mr. President, to hear our plight. The mandates are recruitment, promotion and discipline, with other orders, but making of policies. But these are the three commandments. Before we reach to this level, we have been trying to have a dialogue with our management, which we have even served them the notice of a strike, that if the needful is not being done, if there is no respect for the rule of law, this is the machinery that the union movements used to use in their last results. So we serve them the ultimatum. Even this struggle has been on since 2019, and we are on it, which we have already embarked on for over six weeks' strike, and the dialogue with us with an understanding. But then we feel that we should be able to trust each other. We assume duty, we call off the strike, and the worst thing always occurred, that our mandates will be given to the Nigerian police force, and that is not the way the constitution of the Nigerian stipulated it. The constitution established the police service commission as an oversized civilian functions, that we should coordinate the recruitment, which is the appointment, the discipline, and the promotion of the rank from the rank and file to the DIG. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.