Oshiomhole Opposes Bill to Establish Police Service Commission Training Institute
Senator Adams Oshiomhole has voiced strong opposition to a bill seeking to establish a training institute for the Police Service Commission (PSC), warning that the senate must not act as a “rubber stamp” for duplicative and unnecessary institutions.
The bill, titled Police Service Commission Training Institute (Establishment) Bill, 2025, was presented at Thursday’s plenary by Senator Yunus Akintunde on behalf of Abdulhamid Mallam-Madori, chairman of the Senate Committee on police affairs.
But Oshiomhole, senator representing Edo North, questioned the rationale behind the proposal.
“This house can’t 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,” he said.
He queried the relevance of such an institute, given the limited staff strength of the PSC.
“With due respect, I’ll 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?”
In response, Akintunde clarified: “Police Service Commission is in existence. It was not cancelled to create the Ministry of police affairs.”
Abdul Ningi, senator representing Bauchi Central, also intervened, stressing that debate on the substance of the bill had already passed.
“We must be guided by our rules… This is not up for debate,” he said.
