Police recruitment: Commission suspends final selection

There were strong indications yesterday that the Police Service Commission (PSC) may have suspended the final phase of selecting 10,000 successful candidates for recruitment into the Nigeria Police.
New Telegraph gathered from highly placed sources that the decision to suspend the last phase (final selection) was informed by pressure from some National Assembly members.
The bone of contention, it was gathered, is the alleged demand that the Commission adopt the “local government by local government” arrangement. This request was said to have been rejected by the Commission, which insisted on sticking to the “state-by-state” tradition, in accordance with the federal character principle. Investigations further revealed that the Inspector- General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, had allegedly written to the PSC, wherein he was said to have reminded the Com-mission that it (PSC) has since ceded the power to recruit Constables to the Police.https://newtelegraphonline.com/police-recruitment-commission-suspends-final-selection/