PSC Goes For Broke, Asks IGP To Handover Ongoing Recruitment Constables To The Commission |The Source

By Adesina Soyooye

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has, officially, asked the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, for two things:

*An immediate handover of the on-going 2020 recruitment exercise of police constables.

The admission of Police ASP Cadets into the Nigeria Police Academy Wudil, Kano.

In a release in Abuja on Friday, Ikechukwu Ani, PSC’s Head of Information and Public Relations, said the direction to the IGP is in compliance with the Order of the Court of Appeal.

According to Ani, the Commission’s directive is contained in a letter to the IGP signed by the Chairman of the Commission, Musiliu Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police. The letter was dated October 20th, 2020.

In 2019, the PSC haf dragged the IGP and others to the Federal High Court  Abuja  over the recruitment of 10,000 police constables into the Force, hijacked by the FHQ, contrary to the Constitution of of Federal Republic of Nigeria, which deposited the power to recruit on the PSC.

But the court ruled in the defendants’ favour, saying it was the duty of the IGP to carry out the recruitment.

The Commission headed to the Court of Appeal, which on September 30, 2020, overturned the Lower Court’s decision, saying it was the Commission’s responsibility, thereby nullifying the ongoing process of the recruitment into the Force.

The IGP has headed for the Supreme Court.