The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the Police recruitment examination conducted last week recording 54.2 per cent successful people from North, 45.2 per cent from the South and 0.8 per cent in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

The breakdown shows that out of the total 5,253 successful candidates released by the Police Service Commission, Northern zone produced 2,840 representing 54.2 per cent, Southern zone produced 2,374 representing 45.2 per cent and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, produced 42 candidates, representing 0.8 per cent of the total successful candidates.

In its reaction, the leadership of an Abuja-based non-governmental organisation, Lygel Youths and Leadership Initiatives, LYLI, said that the list of the successful candidates in the police recruitment test as released by the Police Service Commission, PSC, must have vindicated JAMB and the Federal Government of the allegation leveled against them that candidates were tested in Arabic language.

The group’s Executive Director, Mr. Lekan Oladapo, a lawyer, who was reacting to the noise generated by the allegation noted that the geographical distribution of the successful candidates have shown that all the geo-political zones of the country are adequately represented in terms of their performance.

A statement issued by the group and signed by Oladapo noted that out of the total 5,253 successful candidates released by the Police Service Commission, Southern zone produced 2,374 representing 45.2 percent, while the northern zone produced 2,840 representing 54.2 percent. He said the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, produced 42 candidates, representing 0.8 percent of the total successful candidates.

He said; “If you break it further, you would realise that each of the states is well represented. For instance, in South-East, where we have Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo, the successful candidates were 114, 146, 91, 119, 181 respectively. Whereas in North-East, we have Adamawa with 140, Bauchi (133), Borno (189), Yobe (110), Gombe (75) and Taraba with 112.

“The situation is the same across other states of the federation. Is it, therefore, not wrong for anyone to accuse JAMB of engaging in religious or ethnic biases? The list is open for everyone to see.”

The group has, therefore, advised Nigerians to address issues without sentiments and stop creating avoidable crisis.

It would be recalled that the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, had alleged the Federal Government was making Arabic language compulsory for all applicants shortlisted for recruitment into Nigeria Police Force.

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