Following the release of the list
of 10,000 constables to be recruited by the Nigeria Police Force, two state
governments have reportedly kicked against the alleged lopsided allocation of
slots in the list.
The list shows that out of the
10,000 candidates drawn from the 36 states of the federation, 528 were
recruited from Nasarawa, the home state of the Inspector General of Police,
Mohammed Adamu, while Katsina, where President Muhammadu Buhari hails from got
435 candidates.
The Nigeria Police Force released
the recruitment list on its website on Sunday, October 13, 2019.
According to Punch, the
government of Borno and Bauchi states had earlier complained to the Police
Service Commission about the observed discrepancies in the candidates’ list,
saying the police shortchanged them by allotting the highest slot to Nasarawa,
a state with 13 local councils.
Based on the approved slots for
the recruitment, each local government areas across the 36 states was supposed
to get 12 candidates.
Going by this arrangement,
Nasarawa state was meant to get 156 slots instead of 528 recorded in the
recruitment list.
The police recruitment list and
its alleged lopsided slots allocation in the north
It was reported that Borno State
with 27 local government areas had 274 candidates instead of 324, while Bauchi
with 20 local government areas was given 232 slots instead of 240 candidates
it’s entitled to.
However, an analysis carried out
by the Police Service Commission shows that out of the 528 recruited from
Nasarawa State, 372 did not apply for the job, but were included in the
recruitment list.
The analysis also revealed that
40 candidates who did not apply for the job in Cross Rivers state were
allegedly smuggled into the list, while 48 illegal names were included in the
slots for the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Punch reports.
Additional 87 names were added to
Benue state allocation as the state got 363 instead of 276; Kogi’s slot was padded
with extra 52 names and got 304 candidates instead of 252, while Kwara State
was shortchanged by 23 candidates. The state got 169 slots instead of 192.
In the recruitment list, Niger
had 396 slots instead of its entitled 300, while Plateau got 208 instead of
204.
Adamawa, the home state of Alhaji
Atiku Abubakar is among the victims of the alleged lopsided allocation. The
state is entitled to 252 but was given 249 slots. Gombe, which deserves to get
132 got 171 slots.
Taraba got 211 candidates against
the 192 it was entitled to, while Yobe was short-changed by 49 slots as it was
given 155 instead of 204 candidates.
Another state that was deprived
of its entitled slots in the north is Jigawa. The state got 280 instead of 324,
while Kaduna was padded with extra 31 candidates that gave the state 307 slots
instead of 276.
Kano, a state with 44 local
government areas deserves to get 528 candidates, but the state was cheated as
it received 403 positions, while Kebbi had 20 extra candidates, giving it 272
slots instead of 252.
The police recruitment list
awarded 192 candidates to Sokoto state instead of 276, while Zamfara was also
shortchanged by 39 slots as it received 129 instead of 168 slots.
In the South-east, Abia State was
short-changed by 18 slots. It received 186 instead of 204 slots. Anambra too,
was deprived of its entitled 252 slots, the state got 192 instead.
Other state in the Southern part
of the country were similarly deprived to their entitlement in the allocation
of slots during the recruitment exercise.
Region by region breakdown of the slot allocation
Looking at the slots allocation
region by region, the analysis by the Police Service Commission also showed
that the North Central region with 121 local government areas received 2,088
slots instead of the 1,452, while the North-East with 112 local government
areas was given 1,292 slots instead of 1,344.
The North-West with 186 council
areas was entitled to 2,232 position but the police awarded it 2,018
candidates.
The PSC also discovered that the
South-East was deprived of 161 slots. The region was awarded 979 slots instead
of 1,140.
The South-South region also
suffered a loss of 223 slots. The zone was allotted 1,253 slots instead of
1,476. Similarly, the South-West region had a shortage of 238 slots as it got
1,406 candidates instead of 1,644.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Police
Force has invited the shortlisted candidates for training at the 18 police colleges
and training schools across the country
According to Punch, the
candidates have not been issued the required unique number usually allocated to
police trainees by the PSC and they are expected to resume training schools on
Monday, October 21, 2019.
However, the spokesperson for the
Nigeria Police Service, Ikechukwu Ani, has in a statement urged the public to
ignore the recruitment list, saying the authentic list would soon be released.
The statement reads in part, “The commission notes that the list
released by the police is an act of illegality and from close observation is in
serious breach of the Federal Character requirements.
“The commission urges the public to be wary of the list as it will soon
resume the remaining stages of the recruitment process and release the
authentic list of successful candidates, local government by local government.”
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