His appointment was met with commendations, declarations of support, and high expectations that the police service, for a long time, if not the first, was going to be led by a no-nonsense man aiming to transform the law enforcement agency into a commendable standard from its then lacklustre image. Civil society players, security analysts, politicians, and other sections of the general public who had worked with him or known him before his appointment confessed that he was the right man for the job.