The Police Service Commission (PSC) has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately sack the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun for undermining the police recruitment process.
PSC also faulted the alleged corruption case leveled against the PSC.
Briefing reporters in Abuja on the development, Chairman of the Association of Senior Civil Servant of Nigeria (ASCSN) and Joint Union Congress (JUC) of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Adoyi Adoyi expressed displeasure over what he described as false allegation against the PSC.
The IGP, at the weekend through a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, alleged the recruitment process was marred with irregularities and corruption.
Adoyi said there was reliable information indicating that elements within the police Force attempted to smuggle over 1, 000 names into the recruitment list.
He said: “We call on President Bola Tinubu to as a matter of urgency remove the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun to before he destroys his government over the false allegations the IGP leveled against the PSC.
“This act by the IGP is not good for this administration. The IGP should go. You are all aware of the ongoing face-off orchestrated by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) over the just concluded recruitment of constables of the Nigeria Police Force, a task which is the constitutional and statutory responsibility of the Police Service Commission as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Police Service Commission (Establishment, etc.) Act, 2001 and affirmed by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Adoyi said the allegations were unfounded, spurious, speculative and irresponsible because the allegations were thrown into public space before following the official channel of communication.
He said the allegation was a deliberate effort by the police to divert the attention of the public from their non-preparedness to open Police Training Schools for successful recruits.
“The wild allegation of fraud levelled against the commission is a deliberate effort to divert attention of the public from the real issues at hand. The Nigeria Police Force seek to leverage on this allegation to divert attention from their non-preparedness to open the Police Training Schools for the successful recruits, despite availability of funds for the exercise.
“Their unwillingness to deploy funds as appropriated for the training schools must be investigated,” he said.
The union chairman urged the Police to come clean and submit itself to accountability and probity.
He said the PSC had good authority that the training colleges were not in good order to receive and accommodate the recruits for training.
He said gender inclusivity and sensitivity as well as Federal Character were put in place to ensure a fair, inclusive and merit-based recruitment.
The union chairman called for a forensic review of the commission’s list and the one the Nigeria Police sought to foist on the recruitment board.
