The Nigerian Police Service Commission, on Friday, put on hold, the ongoing recruitment process into the constable cadre of the police force, to enable it to finalise the remaining stages of the exercise.
The Head, Press and Public Relations of PSC, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, disclosed the development in a statement issued in Abuja, and appealed to the affected applicants to be patient and await further directives from the commission.
Mr Ani also called on applicants who participated in the recruitment process up to the aptitude test level to ignore any list or information on the exercise emanating from outside the commission.
He said that it is the constitutional responsibility of the commission to recruit Nigerians into the police force whether as constables, cadet inspectors or cadet assistant superintendent of police, adding that the commission would not abdicate its responsibilities as “it will resist any attempt to ambush the ongoing recruitment exercise or dilute its content.”
He explained that any attempt to ambush the process would be an insult to the commission and clear wastage of national resources.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the commission had, on August 3, conducted aptitude tests for the 80,724 shortlisted candidates for the recruitment exercise nationwide.
The commission had earlier shortlisted a total of 210,150 candidates from the 315,032 applications received at the close of its recruitment portal on January 11.
NAN also recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari had mandated the commission to recruit 10,000 Nigerians into the police force.
(NAN)
