IGP heads to Supreme Court over verdict on recruitment of 10, 000 constables

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, has headed for the Supreme Court seeking to upturn Wednesday’s judgment of the Court of Appeal, which nullified the ongoing recruitment of 10,000 constables across the nation.

The Police Service Commission had last year dragged the Nigeria Police Force , the Inspector General of Police, and the Minister of Police Affairs as first, second, and third respondents respectively to the Federal High Court in Abuja. The Attorney General was subsequently added as a fourth respondent.

It held that it was the Police Service Commission that had the responsibility to carry out the recruitment. They argued section 71 of the Nigeria Police Regulations 1968 specifically conferred on the IGP “the power and responsibility of enlisting recruit constables”, while the provision of “Paragraph 30 Part I of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution and section 6 of the Police Service Commission Act, 2001, the 1st respondent is empowered to appoint persons to offices in the 1st appellant”.

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