Chairman, Senate Committee on Police Affairs,
Senator Abu Ibrahim, Thursday said that the
proposed recruitment of 10,000 police personnel
by the Federal Government was suspended due
to sharp disagreement over the criteria for the
recruitment.

Senator Ibrahim told reporters in Abuja while
some stakeholders wanted local government
areas to be the basis for the recruitment
exercise; others insisted that equality of states
should serve as the basis for the exercise.
The Katsina South lawmaker said that there were
also some legal impediments to the exercise.
He noted that some people felt that the police
should recruit from Inspectorate cadre
downwards while the Police Service Commission
should issue letters of appointment to the
recruits.

He said that the issues had not been fully
resolved hence the temporary suspension of the
recruitment exercise.
Ibrahim who said that President Muhammadu
Buhari, has already intervened in the
disagreement assured that within a week the
issue would be resolved.

He noted that there was no truth in the
speculation that the National Assembly wanted
to take over the recruitment.
He said, “Honestly, it (recruitment exercise) has
to be suspended for two obvious reasons. First,
everybody knows that it was agreed that this
recruitment must be done per local government.
“The reason for that is that we are poised to give
emphasis to community policing. The local
governments are the smallest recognised units
by the constitution. So nine (recruits) per local
government, they will form the nucleus for this
community policing per local government.
“The obstacle was equal per state. Some people
felt that it is not representative of federal
character.

“I asked them what about what is happening in
the National Assembly, in which the number of
person per state in the House of Representatives
is by the size of the local governments of that
state, why the Senate is by equality of state.
“But even that is not the main argument. The
main argument is that the police is divided into
divisional units under a Divisional Police Officer
(DPO).. Most of these DPO are current with the
local government areas.

“Therefore, if the police want the recruitment to
be based on local governments, they are right
because the smallest units are the Divisional
Police Units (DPU).
Now, the commission somehow decided
differently, and police also decided differently.
So that is the first issue. The second issue is
the issue of

“There is even this legal aspect that the police
should recruit from Inspectors downwards, and
the commission approves and gives letters of
appointment.
“This is another area of conflict.
“But the president has intervened and probably,
within the next one week, final decision will be
taken on what should be done.

“But the main issues are these disagreements.
Police say it is per local government, while
the commission says it should be per state.
“And we are saying the recruitment should be per
local government for the recruits and the rank
and files, while the officers should be equality
per state.
“This is because the officers’ cadres go
anywhere, but these rank and files, we want them
to remain in their communities to form the
nucleus of community policing.

“So these are very serious disagreement that we
have seen and the president has now waded in.
“They are going to find us a position that we are
going to take on this recruitment.
“I hear some rumours that the National Assembly
wants to take over the recruitment. How can we
do that?
“Those who don’t want this thing to go on are
saying it is against federal character, which kind
of federal character when we are talking of
community policing.

“After all, the DPUs are they based on federal
character. It is by size and population. And there
is even a requirement of thirty thousand persons
per police officer.
“That is not true, how can we take over when we
are not part of the executive. And does he take
instruction from me.

“I told him my reservations and advised him that
he should suspend it until these things are sorted
out.
“The National Assembly cannot do the
recruitment but we have interest on how it is
done. That is part of our oversight function. It is
not correct, it is just rumour.

“How can you do community policing if for
example, a state like Bayelsa with eight local
governments you give them 240 policemen and
Kano with forty four local governments, you give
them two hundred and forty policemen.
“How can they have community policing because
there in Bayelsa, they will have 30 policemen per
local government but in Kano they will have five
or four per local government.

“Is it the samething. And this community
policing is something that will save Nigerian
police because we believe that if we have
community policing, people will be more
committed.

“There will be less corruption, synergy between
the people in the area will be much better and
they will be much better to fight crime.
“So, it did not just come out of the blues that it
should be based on local governments’ basis.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/why-recruitment-of-10000-police-ran-into-hitch-senator/

Abeg! Keep the reasons. Una sabi waste people time joor.

FTC after 5years on NL

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The main reason why the report and the recommendation of the National conference must be visited. Each regions should have equal states and local government. Until it is done, we will keep suspecting each other.

E no concern me

Datz wat dey ll keep sayin until 2019

The reason is simple buhari is clueles n a liar

The local govt criteria is another means for buhari to bring in more abbokies to the police force since they have local government areas in the north

Let's practice true federalism

Problems everywhere

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I pray they never recruit anyone to this NPF.
It's like adding to our problem.
Imagine adding 10,000 more police men to the crooks on ground.
The whala go too much oo.
It's hard to breath now sef, come 10K join.
police go dey colect everybody salary.
or make dem give the ones on ground compulsory retirement, All of them.
Sorry to break your heart.
NPF don break my heart tire.
NPF don show me they're thiefs.
Licensed Thiefs.

Hehehe

Can anytin gud ever work in naija

it should be done equally per state, if the local government procedure is used some regions will take advantage of their land mass to bring in more of their illitrate brothers who managed to see d four walls of a school because the federal charater allows them to pass with terrible marks.

i did not mention any region oo, they know themselves.

Yinmu. no be Naija we dey

Police is your Fiend.

The main problem is all dis politicians want dem to recruit more ASPs dan d rest cos dey want their families to fill d top post.

Cool

This senator is corrupt...he only wants to favor the north

why through local governments? it should be equally divided by zones eg North East, South West, then in zones also equally by states, then in states equally in local government!!! simple and short!!!

Always one sided.... Na waa for Northerners oh

ademasta:
Abeg! Keep the reasons.

FTC after 5years on NL

Welcome to the ftc squad

thunder74:
The main reason why the report and the recommendation of the National conference must be visited. Each regions should have equal states and local government until it is done, we will keep suspecting each other.

You Are So On Point.

Abeg d recruitment should be by state....

Nonsense

If you dont know how it is done, plz approach past administration and seek for their help.

Everything under this admin is inconclusive

The Police Service Commission is made up of politicians who use every recruitment to favor their kiths and kins so am not surprised.

“How can you do community policing if for
example, a state like Bayelsa with eight local
governments you give them 240 policemen and
Kano with forty four local governments, you give
them two hundred and forty policemen.
“How can they have community policing because
there in Bayelsa, they will have 30 policemen per
local government but in Kano they will have five
or four per local government.



this is wrong, every time those from the North want to pull thins in their favour they'll bring this useless excuse,

Do you know that Lagos state has only 20 and the population in Lagos is far more than Kano but Kano has 44 Lga.


Do you know Akwa Ibom state has more LGA that Rivers state!?
the LGA distribution is flawed and can't be used , i'll even prefer the incorrect census figures, or make it equal per state at least even though the number of states aren't equal to some extent its still better than LGA's. do you know Southern Ijaw LGA in Bayelsa is probably the biggest in the federation? so many things are wrong.

Just multiply 9 by 40 and it will dawn on you that only kano may constitute about 30% of the whole recruits.

North with their sinister ploy should continue, but my opinion as a Nigerian is that the criteria should be by equality of states......simple.

So my girlfriend's caught me cheating meh what AMA do Na?

OfficialAwol:
Just multiply 9 by 40 and it will dawn on you that only kano may constitute about 30% of the whole recruits.

North with their sinister ploy should continue, but my opinion as a Nigerian is that the criteria should be by equality of states......simple.

3 gbosa! 4 you