PSC suspends police recruitment exercise – TheNigerialawyer

The Police Service Commission has put on hold the ongoing
recruitment process into the constable cadre of the Nigerian Police
Force, to enable it finalise the remaining stages of the
exercise.

Mr Ikechukwu Ani, the Head, Press and Public Relations of PSC,
who disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja,
appealed to the affected applicants to be patient and await further
directives from the commission.

He called on those who participated in the recruitment process
up to the aptitude test level to ignore any list or information on
the exercise emanating from outside the commission.

According to him, it is the constitutional responsibility of the
commission to recruit Nigerians into the police force whether as
constables, cadet inspectors or cadet assistant superintendent of
police.

He said that the commission would not abdicate the all-important
mandate, adding that “it will resist any attempt to ambush the
ongoing recruitment exercise or dilute its content.”

Ani said that any attempt to ambush the process would be an
affront to the commission and waste of national resources.

The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the commission had, on
August 3, conducted aptitude tests for the 80,724 shortlisted
candidates for the recruitment exercise nationwide.

The commission had earlier shortlisted a total of 210,150
candidates from the 315,032 applications received at the close of
its recruitment portal on January 11.

NAN also recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari had mandated
the commission to recruit 10,000 Nigerians into the police
force.

(NAN)