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I won’t tolerate extortion of money from unemployed Nigerians in police recruitment – Buhari

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buhariState House Press Release – President Muhammadu Buhari warned Thursday in Abuja that he will not tolerate any irregularities or extortion of money from unemployed

Nigerians in the coming recruitment into the police. 

At a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Police Service Commission in the Presidential Villa, President Buhari  sad that applicants having to pay bribes before being accepted into the police in the past was totally unacceptable.

The President told the officials that those in charge of recruitment and training in the Police must be above board and eschew every form of extortion and underhand dealing.

“You must ensure that the recruitment process is transparent. Those who will conduct the recruitment must be above board. It should not be heard that they  receive gratification or extort money from those who want to enlist in the police,”  President Buhari  cautioned.

The President also directed the Inspector-General of Police to prune down the number of policemen attached to dignitaries, and redeploy all policemen withdrawn from that role to regular police duties.

On the stagnation of policemen on a rank for many years, the President counselled the Police Service Commission to review the  current structure of the police, and make recommendations on how the problem can be solved to   boost the morale of serving policemen.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Police Affairs, Dr James  Obiegbu  had, in his briefing of the President,  listed inadequate police personnel, dwindling finances and non-rehabilitation of police training schools as some of the challenges facing the police.

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Sir Mike Okiro said that the country needed to have more than the 305,579 policemen and women which it has at present for effective policing.

He thanked President Buhari for approving the recruitment of 10,000 additional policemen and women earlier this week.

 

Femi Adesina

Special Adviser to the President

(Media & Publicity)

August 20, 2015

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