… urges President Tinubu to stop approving recruitment list
A human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, has called for an independent investigation into the allegation of fraudulent recruitment of constables by the Police Service Commission.
Inspector General of Police, Dr Kayode Egbetokun had recently accused the PSC of recruiting unqualified persons as constables into the Nigeria Police Force.
Recall that there has been a “war of attrition” between the Police Force Headquarters (FHQ), and the Police Service Commission (PSC), as the two bodies have been on a collision course over recently released names of successful candidates for recruitment into the Constable cadre of the Nigeria Police Force.
But Comrade Sulaiman came in defence of the current IGP Egbetokun, describing him as the finest police officer who detests corruption in every form.
He added that the weighty allegation raised on the subject matter by Egbetokun should not be treated with kid gloves.
Sulaiman, who is Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice(CHRSJ), urged
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to order the immediate stoppage of the implentation of the final list of the newly recruited Constable into the Nigeria Police Force(NPF) pending the outcome of the high powered independent investigation team to be instituted by the President on the subject matter.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by the CHRSJ’s Media Office, the activist stated that he did not accuse the newly appointed Chairman of the Police Servics Commission, retired DIG Hashimu Argungu, but it was alleged that some officials in the Commission were perpetrating these evil acts of inserting unqualified names into the recruitment exercise list as being alleged by the IGP.
Sulaiman further alleged that the officers in the office of the Inspector General of Police(IGP) were not also exonorated from the fraudulent recruitment exercise in the previous years.
He then advised both Egbetokun and DIG Argungu (rtd) to finetune a strategy by coming up with a synergy on how to have a robust, better and formidable policing system in line with the constitution of the country.
