Presidency Intervenes in Controversy over Police Recruitment

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Chief of Defence Staff , General Gabriel Olonishaki (L ) and the Inspector General of Police , Mohammed Adamu addressing the State House Correspondent shortly after the Security meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Preesidential Villa, Abuja …Thursday .Photo: GODWIN OMOIGUI

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Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja 

There are strong indications that the presidency has intervened in the controversy trailing the recruitment of about 10,000 constables for community policing ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari.

THISDAY gathered at the weekend that the presidency’s intervention was to check the embarrassment the war of attrition between the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the police could bring to the Buhari administration.

The PSC and the police have engaged in a long-drawn battle over the recruitment, in which the commission has accused the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, of…



Source: Thisday Newspaper

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