The Bayelsa State Government has rejected the list of new police recruits recently approved by the Federal Government.
It described the process as fraudulent and condemned in ‘strong and unequivocal terms’, the manner and mode of the recruitment exercise into the Nigeria Police Force and called for an immediate probe into the process.
The Police Service Commission, PSC, last week released names of successful applicants for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force in the Federal Government’s 10,000 police recruitment programme..
A statement signed on Monday by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Jonathan Obuebite, lamented a situation where names of non-Bayelsans were used to fill positions meant for the people of the state.
The Bayelsa government said it was not acceptable and totally against the principle of federal character and due process.
The statement described the process as not only lopsided, but a fraud against the people of the state.
The statement reads: “While each local government area across the country was meant to produce 10 candidates, those of Bayelsa were filled with fictitious names of persons, who are not from the particular local government areas.
“Bayelsa, made up of eight local government areas was entitled to 80 candidates, but the lopsided manner in which the recruitment exercise was conducted, has further depleted the state’s quota.
“The ICPC, Police Service Commission and Federal Character Commissions, as well as other related agencies of government must urgently investigate, correct the anomaly and equally bring the perpetrators of the fraud to book.
“Failure to correct the seeming imbalance and fraud against Bayelsa and the Ijaw ethnic nationality, would be seen as a deliberate move by the Nigerian system to short-change the state, its people and the entire Ijaw ethnic nationality,” the statement added.
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