Following the Supreme Court judgment given in favor of the Police Service Commission (PSC) on the recruitment of N10,000 constables into the Nigeria Police Force, PSC Chairman, Dr Solomon Arase, on Monday, inaugurated the 11-man Police Recruitment Board (PRB) saddled with the responsibility of screening and ensuring that only able and qualified members of the public are recruited into the Nigeria Police Force.
Members of the board include the Deputy Inspector- General of Police in charge of the Development Training Department of the police, DIG Bala Ciroma; Alhaji Muhammed Magaji from the Ministry of Police Affairs; Mrs. Ifeoma Anyanwutaku, Permanent Secretary of the PSC; Prof. Joseph Olowofela from the Federal Character Commission and Representative of Police Colleges, CP Hassan Yabanet.
Other members are Yusuf Sanusi, Recruitment Department of the PSC; Sani Usman Hada, ICT Unit of the PSC; Barr. Victoria Onyekwuluije, Legal Department of the PSC, and DSP Ahanmisi Obehi, Office of the Chairman of the PSC.
According to Dr. Arase, the task of recruiting qualified people of good conduct and character is no doubt an arduous one, but can be made easier through the cooperation and assistance of our community leaders and traditional and religious institutions.
“Every Nigerian who is desirous of Police Reforms in our dear country is, therefore, implored to assist the Board during the recruitment exercise by ensuring that the bad eggs in society are not foisted on the Board and/or allowed to surreptitiously get recruited into the NPF without alerting the Board through whistle-blowing,” he said.
He listed some of the mandates of the board as determining and declaring the available vacancies in the NPF that need to be filled and drawing up guidelines for every recruitment process in the Force, determining the online platform to be employed in the advertorials and recruitment of applicants, as well as the placement of advertorials in national dailies and other forms of information dissemination on the recruitment, among others.
He further stressed that the members of the Board should shun corruption in its entirety and its appearances, saying they should “strive like Caesar’s wife to be above board in the conduct of the recruitment exercise.”
In his response, DIG Bala Ciroma assured that the Board would carry out its assignment diligently to be devoid of conflicts of interest in the national interest.
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