The Police Service Commission, (PSC), has reported the Inspector-General of Police, (IGP) Mohammed Adamu, to the President Muhammadu Buhari for refusing to hand over the 2019 recruitment of 10,000 constables.
The agency said the IGP refused to obey an Appeal Court’s judgment nullifying his purported mandate to recruit constables into the Nigeria Police Force “because he enjoys the supervision of people bearing arms.”
It was earlier reported that the Commission complained to the President after the IGP wrote to the PSC, saying he would not hand over the recruitment exercise.
According to a source, the Commission in its letter to the President accused the IG of setting a bad precedent by failing to obey a court order, adding that the service asked Buhari to prevail on the Police boss.
Recall that the PSC directed the IG to hand over the 2019 and the on-going 2020 recruitment exercise in a letter dated October 20, 2020, signed by the Commission Chairman, Musiliu Smith.
The agency hinged its demand on the September 2020 Court of Appeal judgment which nullified a lower court ruling dated December 2, 2019, and affirmed the commission’s constitutional mandate to recruit constables into the Nigeria Police.
