Corruption: Buhari warns against extortion in 10,000 Policemen Recruitment

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President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, warned against any form of extortion during the proposed recruitment of 10,000 policemen nationwide.
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He maintained that he would not tolerate any irregularities or extortion of money from unemployed Nigerians in the coming police recruitment exercise.

He gave the warning while meeting with officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Police Service Commission in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

President Buhari specifically said that the previous practices of compelling applicants to pay bribes before being accepted into the police was totally unacceptable.

President Buhari directed that the officials to be in charge of recruitment and training in the police must be above board and eschew every form of extortion and underhand dealing.

According to him, “You must ensure that the recruitment process is transparent. Those who will conduct the recruitment must be above board. It should not be heard that they receive gratification or extort money from those who want to enlist in the police.”

In a release by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari condemned a situation where police recruits were made to pay through their nose in order to enlist in the organisation.

On the stagnation of policemen on a rank for many years, the President advised the Police Service Commission to review the current structure of the police and make recommendations on how the problem could be solved to boost the morale of serving policemen.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Police Affairs, Dr James Obiegbu, had, in his briefing to the President, listed inadequate police personnel, dwindling finances and non-rehabilitation of police training schools as some of the challenges facing the police.

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Sir Mike Okiro, said the country needed to have more than the 305,579 policemen and women for effective policing.

He thanked President Buhari for approving the recruitment of 10,000 additional policemen and women earlier this week.
Okiro said this would help in tremendously boosting the performance of the Nigeria Police.

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