President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to cut
down the number of policemen that are attached to dignitaries across the country.
The officers withdrawn from such duties are to be redeployed to their regular police duties.
This directive was made known in a
statement released by Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the
President, Mr. Femi Adesina. He quoted the President as speaking during a
meeting with officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Police
Service Commission in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The President forewarned that that he would not tolerate any
irregularities or extortion of money from unemployed Nigerians in the
coming recruitment into the police.
He said 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,” the President was quoted as saying.
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On the stagnation of policemen on a rank for many years, the President
counselled the PSC to review the current structure of the police, and
make recommendations on how the problem could 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, Mr. Mike Okiro, said the
country needed to have more than the 305,579 policemen and women which
it had present has if indeed the force must be carry out its duties
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