The Ministry of Police Affairs
said it has received a matching order from the Presidency to recruit additional
400,000 personnel into the Nigeria Police force to address the manpower
shortage in the service.
Head of Press and Public
Relations Unit of the ministry, Odutayo Oluseyi, who made this known in a
statement, said already, the minister, Mohammed Dingyadi, has set up a 13-man
Ministerial Project Coordination Committee to conduct the recruitment process.
The presidential directive may
end the ongoing legal tussle between the Police Service Commission and the
Nigeria police force over which agency had the right to carry out the
recruitment of police personnel.
Members of the committee who were
drawn from both the ministry and the police are expected to work out
appropriate programmes and projects to accomplish the assigned priorities and
deliverables.
He said the police affairs
minister had during the inauguration of the committee members in Abuja, told
them that providing security for all citizens was among the nine main priority
areas of the Buhari led government.
According to him, “Dingyadi said,
“It is instructive to point out these government priorities have been developed
in line with the vision of this administration which is targeted towards
building a prosperous economy, eradicating corruption and providing security
for all.”
The statement added that
Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Nnamdi Mbaeri disclosed that during the
Presidential Retreat, a committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of the
Vice President to review the performance of the government during the last four
years and also articulate a programme of action which would provide strategic
direction for the Administration’s next level agenda, 2019-2023.
Continuing, he said the committee
developed the document titled “Delivering on government’s priorities 2019-2023″
that featured nine overarching government priorities, including security.
Mbaeri said, “The police affairs
ministry was assigned specific priorities and deliverables including full
implementation of the Community Policing Policy, the recruitment of additional
400,000 policemen across the country, establishment of a Federal Public-Private
Security Trust Fund amongst others.”
According to the permanent
secretary, it was in the bid to effectively and adequately implement these
priorities and deliverables for the benefit of Nigerians that the ministry
considered it imperative to constitute this Ministerial Project Coordination
Committee which was tasked with carrying out specified duties.
“The Chairman of the committee,
and Director of Police Reforms Department in the ministry, Mohammed Yahaya,
pledged on behalf of the committee to carry out their duties efficiently and
effectively, saying it was a rare opportunity that had been given to them to
participate in the architectural shaping of the security of the country,” he
said.
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