After months of being at loggerheads with the Police High Command, the Police Service Commission (PSC) Chairman, retired Inspector General of Police, Mr Musiliu Smith, has resigned from his job with immediate effect.
Persecondnews recalls that the retired police chief, who is from Lagos, had been at “daggers drawn” with the Police authorities on which organization has the constitutional responsibility to recruit Constables into the Nigerian Police.
Confirming the development, the spokesman for the Commission, Mr Ikechukwu Ani said an official statement giving the details would be issued on Thursday, September 15.
Meanwhile, the most senior Commissioner in the PSC, Justice Clara Ogunbiyi, a retired Supreme Court Justice, who is representing the judiciary, has assumed duty as acting Chairman.
There has been disagreement between the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, and Police Service Commission over the 2022 Police recruitment exercise for 10,000 Constables.
The Police Service Commission had in the month of August, opened its portal for the recruitment of police constable for the year 2022 and placed an advert in a national daily.
But the Nigeria Police High Command in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi asked Nigerians to disregard the advertisement and call for applications.
Adejobi had said the advert had no connection with the Nigeria Police and was not in tandem with the police recruitment process.
“The Nigeria Police Force wishes to inform well-meaning members of the public that it has not commenced the 2022 Police Constables Recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force contrary to a publication on Page 21 of a National Daily of Thursday August 11, 2022 by the Police Service Commission (PSC).
“The police similarly state unequivocally that the advert has no connection with the Nigeria Police Force nor is it in tandem with the police recruitment process, and should be disregarded in all its entirety.
“The website to which the publication refers intending candidates – http://www.recruitment.psc.gov.ng – is not associated with the Nigeria Police Force.
“The Nigeria Police Force hereby calls on all stakeholders and intending applicants to discountenance the information in both the newspaper and on the portal as the website is not the official portal for Police Constables recruitment.
“The Nigeria Police Force thereby assures well-meaning Nigerians that the commencement of the 2022 recruitment exercise will be announced via the official police e-recruitment website – https://policerecruitment.gov.ng, the Nigeria Police Force official website – https://www.npf.gov.ng, and advertisements on national dailies and official police social media accounts as and when due,” he said.
Persecondnews also recalls that during the tenure of former IGP, Mohammed Adamu, the disagreement reared its ugly head.
The commission had taken the former IGP and the Police to court for conducting the recruitment exercise of 10,000 constables in 2019.
On July 26, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari had swor in Smith, members of the commission.
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