At a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Police Service Commission in the Presidential Villa on Thursday, President Buhari warned that he would not tolerate any irregularities or extortion of money from unemployed Nigerians in the coming recruitment into the police. He stressed that applicants having to pay bribes before being accepted into the police in the past was totally unacceptable.
The President told the officials that those in charge of recruitment and training in the Police must be above board and eschew every form of extortion and underhand dealing.
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He also directs the Inspector-General of Police, Sunday Arase to prune down the number of policemen attached to dignitaries and redeploy all policemen withdrawn from that role to regular police duties.
“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,” Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, quoted President Buhari as saying.
The President counselled the Police Service Commission to review the current structure of the police, and make recommendations on how the problem of the stagnation of policemen on a rank for many years can be solved to boost the morale of serving policemen.
