DAILY TRUST
The simmering disagreement between the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the police high command over the recruitment of constables is affecting service delivery and the timeline to increase the manpower of the security outfit.
Specifically, stakeholders who spoke to our reporter described the fresh controversy on the recruitment exercise as “unhealthy,” saying such development was already jeopardising the internal security in the country considering the leading role of the police in ensuring civil authority.
In the latest incident, Inspector-General of Police Kayode Egbetokun, on Saturday, June 15, released a strong-worded statement, in which he rejected a list that emanated from the recruitment exercise carried out by the PSC.
The renewed hostility came less than one week after President Bola Tinubu sacked the immediate past chairman of the PSC, Solomon Arase, who was appointed on January 24, 2023 by the immediate past president Muhammadu Buhari.
Although Daily Trust could not ascertain whether the fresh hostility was connected with Arase’s sack, stakeholders in the security sector said the president should have allowed him to complete his assignment on the recruitment.
However, IGP’s statement released to journalists through the spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, expressed displeasure over what he described as “recruitment process marred with irregularities and alleged corruption.”
Egbetokun particularly said the NPF was concerned when the names of candidates who were properly screened and trained disappeared from the list of successful candidates.
“Upon a careful scrutiny of the list released on the PSC portal, it was discovered that several names of persons purported to be names of successful candidates are those who did not even apply, and therefore, did not take part in the recruitment exercise.
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