​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 per cent, while the northern zone produced 2,840 representing 54.2 per cent. He said the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, produced 42 candidates, representing 0.8 per cent 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.

http://kikiotolu.com/police-recruitment-north-gets-55-20-south-45-2-fct-0-8/

The association of day n night robbers recruitment... kwantinu

Is FCT not the North?

More like North got 56% and south 46%. When you analyze the 46% from south, your guess is as good as mine. The same old pattern

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Madness. Is fct not part of the North? Brainless mofos

like for Fulani herdsmen and share for SARS �

Only God will punish buhari for the division he brought to Nigeria

How will you pick abok.is with Hausa accent ?



Oga full ofer show me your ficense and fegistratuon

How about the Arabs whom i heard their language was included in the exams.
How many percentage did did they get too.

Obviously the northerners would have the greater percentage. #Thisisnigeria

This is not news.
Tell us something new.

Was the South sleeping when the quota, Federal Character thing were being introduced?

Oya nah. Make we vote. If u are happy about this recruitment thingy share. If u see it as more bribery and corruption like

None of my business

FEAR NORTH

People should stop justifying nonsense.

They might have disenfranchised candidates without Arabic knowledge if not for the pressure from notable Christian citizens

Tribalism is one of the major problems we have in this country. On what basis did the north get 54.2%? The only way to eliminate this problem is for the south region to speak with one voice.I don't see how one region will be getting lion share of everything even it's obvious that they're far behind

All these fake bloggers trying to stoke ethnic acrimony among Nigerians, aren't you ever gonna stop?
While ur real intention is to pitch southerners against Muslim North you forget that not all of us are ignorant of the fact that Kwara, benue, Kogi, Taraba and plateau are all part of the North.
Again, we know for a fact that the recruitment exercise was done to favor all local government of Nigeria. And as such, it's only natural that the north which has more states(including the states mentioned above) than the south will produce more candidates.

#StopTheBigotry

oyoni:
Is FCT not the North?

Answer yourself
What's the meaning of FCT?

Ediots

Some people might not like this
But if you consider the population
The stats are very very fair

isoright

oyoni:
Is FCT not the North?

The same question I'm about to ask
As if FCT isn't controlled by the Northerners

The result was based on quota.

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If not for serious unemployment saga...most responsible families in the south do not even want their youths in that evil Naija police uniforms for now. As for the North...anything goes...even Boko haramic occupation or begging.

This is Nigeria.

All these 189 candidates from the Boko Haram ravaged places (Borno) . Where did they find the large number. I hope BH members are not there

Wat do u expect wen nepotism rules supreme in naija

oyetunder:
If not for serious unemployment saga...most responsible families in the south do not even want their youths in that evil Naija police uniform. As for the North...anyyhing goes...even Boko haramic occupation or begging.

I swear

nairaland and it divisive tactics......the rato is balanced.

northerners are clearly more than southerners in population.if u remove middle belt from the statistics as neutral region,u will know that core north percentage is far less than southerners

So what this fool is saying is that North candidates are well groomed than the south counterparts. I wonder why this people can never be truthful for once but when it comes to national common entrance north will have cut off mark of 2-8 while the south have 131-150 as cut off mark. The best is to pull out of this strange amalgamation or south will forever be slave to the north. They are still talking even when they know they are not truthful with the system.