- PSC Workers Union To Tinubu: “Police Force Wanted To Smuggle Over 1000 Names Into Recruitment List…”
- NPF: “It’s A Lie, The Recruitment List Was Marred With Corruption, Nepotism”
By Abiola Olawale
The Police Service Commission (PSC) workers unions and the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) are currently embroiled in a verbal dispute, exchanging allegations and counter-allegations of corruption and nepotism over the recently released recruitment list of successful Police personnel and constables.
This is as the PSC workers unions urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sack Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun on grounds of allegations of purported moves to undermine the police recruitment process.
The Chairman of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) and Joint Union Congress of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Adoyi Adoyi, who spoke with the press in Abuja, denied allegations made by the NPF that the recruitment process of Police personnel and constables was marred with irregularities and corruption.
Adoyi while describing the allegations as false and untrue wondered why Egbetokun would stoop so low to dent the reputation of the PSC.
Adoyi alleged that it was some individuals within the Police Force ranks that wanted to smuggle in over 1000 names into the recruitment list.
He said he has evidence that some powerful individuals in the police Force wanted to include unknown names in the recruitment list but that the PSC under the leadership of retired IGP Solomon Arase stood firm and rejected all attempts to add unqualified persons.
However, IGP Egbetokun, in a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, had rejected the recruitment list.
In the statement, Adejobi disclosed that Egbetokun had written to the PSC raising concerns on the inclusion of several names of persons who didn’t even apply and didn’t take part in the recruitment exercise.
Adejobi also alleged that the list also included names of candidates who had failed either the Computer Test or the physical screening, as well as those disqualified for being medically unfit.
It would be recalled that PSC chairman, Solomon Arase had been sacked by president Tinubu over alleged fraudulent handling of the last recruitment process into the NPF. But the PSC workers unions have started voicing their opposition to the sack of Arase.
