Police recruitment: South East indifferent, not showing interest, Arase laments
The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Dr. Solomon Arase, has lamented that at least four states from the South East region, namely, Anambra, Ebonyi, Abia and Imo, are not showing enough interest in the ongoing recruitment exercise for General Duty Constables into the Nigeria Police Force.
This was contained in a press release issued by the head of Press and Public Relations Unit of PSC, Mr. Ikechukwu Ani, dated October 25, 2023.
According to the statement, Kaduna State is currently leading in the number of applications already received as at day 9 in the ongoing recruitment exercise.
“20,259 Kaduna State youths have already completed the online applications to lead the table while Anambra State leads from behind with only 541 applications,” Mr. Ani said.
Following Kaduna state at the top are Adamawa State with 18,933 applications; Borno state with 18,305; Bauchi state, 16,554; Katsina state, 16,232 and Kano state, 15,888.
Next to Anambra State from the rear are; Ebonyi, 737; Abia, 966, Imo 999, Bayelsa, 1020; Enugu, 1036; Lagos, 1259; Delta, 1338 and Edo 1526.
Meanwhile 242, 391 males have already completed their applications while only 35,405 females have registered their presence.
Reacting to the indifferent attitude of South East youths to the recruitment, Dr. Arase, himself a retired Inspector General of Police, expressed concern in the continued disinterest of South East youths in pursuing a career in the Nigeria Police Force.
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He noted that the South East, currently a hot bed for non-state actors’ rebellion in the country, should have been in the forefront to join the Nigeria Police Force and bring indigenous solution to the menace.
He called on the leadership of the zone to find a way of convincing its youths to embrace the opportunity the ongoing recruitment has provided.
The PSC Chairman said it will be difficult for anybody to listen to cries of marginalisation from leaders of the zone if they choose to remain indifferent to Government’s generous decision to offer employments to Nigerian youths into the Police Force.
He said they should maximise the remaining five weeks open for their youths to get onto the train. Read more.
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