The Police Service Commission alleges that the police are using intimidation tactics to try to take control of the recruitment process for police constables.
According to Daily Trust, the spokesman of PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, alleged that the commission was aware that all these distractions were calculated attempts by the Police to hold on, by all means, to the recruitment of Constables despite the Supreme Court Judgment.
“This show of brute force and intimidation by the Police and most recently inducements of hired writers to run down the Commission in the Media is a serious affront to the mandate of the Commission,” the spokesman of the commission alleged.
Daily Trust had reported how constant rancour between the two establishments stalled the recruitment of 10,000 police constables to inject more manpower into the force to tackle ranging security challenges ravaging the country.
Kayode Egbetokun, had on Thursday, while meeting top police officers on the rank of AIG, and CPs at Force Headquarters, insisted that he would not accept what he described as “anyhow” recruitment carried out by the commission.
But reacting to the police boss’ stand, Ani called on the President, Bola Tinubu, to rein in the Inspectors-General of Police to respect the constitutional mandate of the commission to recruit for the police.
“The Commission wishes to appeal to Mr. President to protect it and rein in the Nigeria Police Force to respect the Constitutional Mandate of the Commission to recruit.
“The Commission is disturbed at the flagrant abuse of ethics, the Constitution and valid judgment of the apex court of the land,” the commission stated in the statement.
Ani added that the Commission has studied the issues around this successfully concluded recruitment exercise and has concluded that even after the Supreme Court Judgment, the Police are reluctant to allow the Commission to perform this constitutional assignment.
According to him, the PSC demands that the Police should provide verifiable evidence to prove the allegations peddled against it, saying “It is obvious that it is a case of giving a dog a bad name to hang it.
“It is important to state that due process was meticulously followed throughout the exercise and the Commission wishes to assert its prerogative to exercise full control over recruitments into the Nigeria Police Force.
“The Commission is also insisting that its list of successful candidates and that of the Police should be subjected to a forensic audit using the result of the JAMB computer-based test.”
