By Augustine Ehikioya
With 9 days into the ongoing Police Recruitment exercise, the Police Service Commission (PSC) has disclosed that Kaduna State is currently leading in the number of applications already received for General Duty Constables into the Nigeria Police Force.
A statement by the Head, Press and Public Relations of PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, and made available to Security Watch Africa (SWA), said that 20,259 Kaduna State youths have so far completed the online applications to lead the table.
The statement said Anambra State is at the bottom of the table with only 541 applications.
It added “Following Kaduna State at the top are Adamawa State with 18,933 applications; Borno State with 18,305; Bauchi State, 16,554; Katsina State, 16,232 and Kano State, 15,888.
“Next to Anambra State from the rear are; Ebonyi, 737; Abia, 966 and Imo 999. Bayelsa, has 1020; Enugu, 1036; Lagos, 1259; Delta, 1338 and Edo 1526.
“Meanwhile 242, 391 males have already completed their applications while only 35,405 females have registered their presence,” it stated.
The Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Solomon Arase, retired Inspector General of Police, the statement said has expressed concern in the continued disinterest of South East youths in pursuing a career in the Nigeria Police Force.
Dr. Arase noted that the South East, currently a hot bed for non state actors rebellion in the country should have been in the forefront to join the Nigeria Police Force and bring indigenous solution to the menace.
He called on the leadership of the zone to find a way of convincing its youths to embrace the opportunity of the ongoing recruitment has provided.
The PSC Chairman said it will be difficult for anybody to listen to cries of marginalisation from leaders of the zone if they choose to remain indifferent to Government’s generous decision to offer employments to Nigerian youths into the Police Force.
He said they should maximise the remaining five weeks open for their youths to get into the train.
