* States With Fewer LGs Shortchanged

There is indignation following lopsided recruitment process being applied by the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the police hierarchy for the ongoing recruitment of 6,000 Constables in the country.

President Muhammadu Buhari recently approved the recruitment of 6,000 additional policemen as part of fresh measures to address the nation’s security challenges.

This is coming after the recruitment of 10,000 officers and men, who included specialists, to address the shortfall in the numerical strength of the force and equip it to combat crime in the country.

According to police sources, the recent recruitment exercise is being done on local government area basis as against the known system of recruiting on state basis which gives balance of representation.

Last year, 10,000 policemen of the rank of Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs), Inspectors and Constables were recruited with same “questionable process”, the sources said.

They said in the present recruitment process states with more local government areas will have more personnel in the force now than those with fewer local government areas even if those with fewer local government areas have more population.

A dependable source at Force Headquarters, Louis Edet House, said last year when 10,000 policemen were recruited, 10 Constables were recruited from each local government area in the country.

“That recruitment saw Lagos having 200 Constables because it has 20 local government areas. Ekiti State with sixteen local government areas got 160 Constables; Enugu got 170 Constables. Kano got 440 Constables, Oyo, 330; Bayelsa, 80; Jigawa, 270; Kaduna, 230, and Borno, 270”, he said.

The source, who condemned the process and tagged it “new system”, also said the present recruitment of 6000 Constables will follow the same process.

He said each local government area will contribute seven Constables as against what obtained where states contribute equal number of personnel into the force.

This process, according to analysts, will shortchange states with fewer local government areas, even when their population is higher than those with more local government areas.



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I pity all southerners supporting this injustice, simply because they are Muslims.

States that contributes nothing to the coffers of this country, gets it all.

but Lagos state own should b 500,Dats 50 LGA.or aven they recognized it