Periscoping Mosque Management in Police Formations, Southwestern Nigeria, In the Lens of Henry Fayol Management Principles

Abstract

Previous researches on Mosque management in the southwestern Nigeria (Akanni, 2013; Oloyede, 2014; Jawondo, 2015 and Badmus, 2018) focused mainly on community mosques. Though there are a few of them that focused on mosques in government institutions within the region but none specifically centered on mosque management in police formations in the lens of Henri Fayol Management Principles. This is the gap this current work has come to fill. This was with a view to evaluating the level of compatibility of mosque management in the police formations southwestern Nigeria with Henri Fayol 14 Principles of Management. The historical method was adopted in which oral interview and Library materials were utilized. Findings reveal that mosque management in the police formations southwestern Nigeria commenced in the year 1958, with the building of the first mosque within the sector at Obalende Barracks, Lagos. Also, Mosque management in the Sector was in line with most of the 14 Management Principles propounded by Henri Fayol such as: division of works, remuneration, centralization, order, equity, e.t.c. The paper concludes that the authority should recruit more personnel (imams) and there should be regular trainings for imams on mosque management which should be anchored by certified mosque managers. It then suggests that Police authority should help in funding the mosques within the sector adequately and the imams should explore maximally Islamic institutions such as: Sadaqāh, zakāt and wagf as alternative to funding the police formations mosques in the southwestern Nigeria.