The Police Service Commission has said it could not verify the academic credentials of 80,724 applicants shortlisted for employment into the Constable cadre in the Nigeria Police Force.

The Commission stated that the candidates were shortlisted based on their physical attributes, noting that the verification of their certificates would be done by the West African Examination Council after their admission into police colleges for training.

The Commission’s spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, said successful applicants who were invited to write an aptitude test on Saturday, must have five credit pass including English and Mathematics, to qualify for recruitment.

He explained that the test will hold in the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The 80,724 candidates were shortlisted from the 210,150 applicants who applied for the 10,000 police slots. A total of 315,032 online applications were received at the close of the Commission’s recruitment portal on January 11, 2019.

Responding to questions about the number of applicants who failed to meet the academic requirements for the exercise, Ani said, “What we are doing is, we screen the documents and their physical attributes. At this point, we don’t have all it takes to verify certificates, but we look at it and if it looks okay, we pass it.”

He added, “When they (applicants) finally get in, there would be proper scrutiny of the certificates after they get to the (Police) colleges. I think we would write to WAEC to confirm the certificates, but at this point, we are just looking at them (certificates) and the one that is okay, we would pass. The person must have five credit pass including in English and Mathematics.”

The Commission’s spokesman, who is in Anambra State for the exercise, further explained that only those with physical deformities were dropped during the physical screening conducted by the Nigeria Police Force.

He said candidates who passed the aptitude test would also be subjected to medical screening to ascertain their health and fitness for the job.

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“The Police handled the physical screening and if you don’t have a flat foot or knock knee and if your results appear fine, then they would pass you to the next level, but the medical screening would be done for those who passed the examination,” Ani noted.

Commenting on the planned recruitment of 40,000 community police officers announced by the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, the PSC spokesman said the Commission was not part of the initiative.

He stated, “There is no meeting where it has been discussed with the Commission; The Commission is not part of it. I don’t have a brief that the Commission is part of it, but I feel the Commission should be part of it.”

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He added, “When they (applicants) finally get in, there would be proper scrutiny of the certificates after they get to the (Police) colleges. I think we would write to WAEC to confirm the certificates, but at this point, we are just looking at them (certificates) and the one that is okay, we would pass.

Jus imagine!! U look at d certificate and if it looks okay u pass dem? And afta admitting dem into police college U'll den write to WAEC to confirm.

A house built with a spit shall be demolished by drizzle.
This is how it starts, you recruit them without proper verification, and they turn rogue extorting innocent citizens few months after recruitment.
What a failed country!

God punish Buhari, punish all leaders in Nigeria, punish everyone supporting this failed government. Amen.


Quote me wrongly and fail to see the next breaking of the day. #tomorrow

Hope it's not substitution reaction?

When nobody has seen Buhari's certificate.

The CJN no get school cert.

So these Police people not having certificates is no big deal.

..what would it cost to verify them? Say #300 per candidate. That one is not news nah.

Already it has gotten to 80 thousand candidates shot listed but the funny thing is that in this present government and Nigeria its man wer know man wer know man der get work these days and na them go full there becus the slots has already been sold out even before the realization and implementation of the program.. No be Naija again?

Or just behave like cow, Buhari would notice you.

With the way we bash our policemen you will think no single soul will apply for the job, beside am aware most are going there to collect their share of #50 and not for the passion whichever way 10,000 slot is enuf to decongest the already populated labour market

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Nbote:


Jus imagine!! U look at d certificate and if it looks okay u pass dem? And afta admitting dem into police college U'll den write to WAEC to confirm.

We maad Gan for this country. They just look at them (certificates).

Does nigeria even have a data base? After BVN, the banks are still requesting for national id card or driving license before transaction... so what happened to the BVN database?... mtschewwww

9ja which way Lugard is in Hell watching us suffering! It shall never be well with him, wish I can see that his signature

Make i come help una verify am na

1k per certificate

strangest:
Does nigeria even have a data base? After BVN, the banks are still requesting for national id card or driving license before transaction... so what happened to the BVN database?... mtschewwww

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Chiedu4Trump:
When nobody has seen Buhari's certificate.

The CJN no get school cert.

So these Police people not having certificates is no big deal.

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abbaapple:


9ja which way Lugard is in Hell watching us suffering! It shall never be well with him, wish I can see that his signature

Lugard's people left us some six decades ago, what have we done with ourselves since then
Must we continue in the geographical space created by Lugard in 1914?
Must we?

Nbote:


Jus imagine!! U look at d certificate and if it looks okay u pass dem? And afta admitting dem into police college U'll den write to WAEC to confirm.

Incompetency!

Pavore9:


Incompetency!

How?


Where in the world would 80 thousand certificates be verified before acceptance?

Nemesis909:


How?


Where in the world would 80 thousand certificates be verified before acceptance?

The applicants pay a small fee, then digitally forward the pictures and the scanned certificates of the applicants to WAEC, it is not rocket science.

Majority of those that cant be verified must be the illiterate, stupid fraudulent Igbos youths.

They are good in taking certificates.

Their leader Nnamdi kanu is a living example. A man without even WAEC certificate yet he wants to lead millions of Igbos.

I challenge Nnamdi zkanu to show us his certificates.

There's nothing wrong with admitting (for training) first and verifying the certificates later. This is what universities and polytechnics do.

The Nigeria Police do not have control of the time it would take West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to verify all the certificates.

It would cost less, as well as take less time, for 10,000 certificates to be verified than for 80,724 certificates to be verified.

What a hopeless country. The better we realize that, the better for everyone. Nothing will work here till we do the needful: divide this dysfunctional contraption or let all those that have been at the corridors of power and their relations be banned from public office, or the British return.

It is very easy to verify the certificate...

Ask the shortlisted candidates to get a Waec/neco/nabteb scratch card.

B4 the candidate is admitted into d exam hall ,visit the exams body's website for verification by entering the exams details on the certificate....Shkenan

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Did I just read . They can't verify certificate

Ojoro want to come inside be that oooh


Just like they did to LIFELESS DULLARD

the question is, was IG's certificate verified when he was recruited. the answer is a resounding NO, Nobody has time for that. not even our PRESIDENT, of all people, has his acclaimed certificate verified. why worry now?
Buhari & warmongering politicians have failed us. They continue to escalate tensions and the institutions are joining in this madness.
Did you notice also. that PDP senators were offered juicy Senate committees' as Chairs. Taa! They have conspired to share our MONEY again. I will SHOUT O!

Nbote:


Jus imagine!! U look at d certificate and if it looks okay u pass dem? And afta admitting dem into police college U'll den write to WAEC to confirm.

Cool down bro, they are in order.
That's how recruitment is done in public service. They don't have all the time to verify all the certificates at a go. That may delay the engagement for like another two years.
That is why newly engaged individuals are always on 'probation' pending when the 'gods' certify them holy.

Rubbish. Excuses everywhere. Just go to their verification site, by bulk units and verify. Is that a Job. Mediocres, lazy bunchs
https://www.waeconline.org.ng/verification/

Idibia18:
the question is, was IG's certificate verified when he was recruited. the answer is a resounding NO, Nobody has time for that. not even our PRESIDENT, of all people, has his acclaimed certificate verified. why worry now?
Buhari & warmongering politicians have failed us. They continue to escalate tensions and the institutions are joining in this madness.
Did you notice also. that PDP senators were offered juicy Senate committees' as Chairs. Taa! They have conspired to share our MONEY again. I will SHOUT O!

Nonsense. What do you mean nobody has time. Must everyone be on it. Just dedicate a team to do that online. But they have time for stupid activities

Pavore9:


The applicants pay a small fee, then digitally forward the pictures and the scanned certificates of the applicants to WAEC, it is not rocket science.

And hold up the employment process?


As soon as the NPF requires the applicants to pay a fee you guys would commence your campaign of calumny and propaganda against the police.

Even Shell, Chevron etc. wait until the candidate is selected but as usual it is always for you guys to bash the Nigerian state.

Bluffly:

Nonsense. What do you mean nobody has time. Must everyone be on it. Just dedicate a team to do that online. But they have time for stupid activities

Exactly. I meant they don't seem to bother about verifying certificate. What most Northerners do is lie under OATH that they certificate got burnt, it goes.