We Are Not Recruiting-Police
Oru Leonard
The Police Service Commission (PSC), has said rumours and messages of on going recruitment in the Nigeria Police Force is fake and a mechanism to defraud the public by fraudsters.
This was stated in a release made available to News Dot Africa by Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations at Abuja on Wednesday, February 19th 2020.
“The Police Service Commission wishes to clarify that there is no on-going recruitment of Cadet Assistant Superintendents
He said that the PSC is in possession of messages and requests to notable Nigerians informing them of a phantom recruitment exercise and asking them to send three names for recruitment.
“The messages were purported to have originated from the Honourable Chairman of the Commission, Musiliu Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police. The fraudsters according to information in the Commission’s possession are requesting from their contacts, payments to some account names and numbers of different Nigerian banks. The Commission is deeply embarrassed that fraudsters associate the name of the Commission’s Chairman with this fraudulent disposition”, he complained.
He noted that recruitment in the Police Service Commission is handled by the PSC as a body and not by individuals. The Chairman only chairs the meetings where decisions of the Commission, including that of recruitment are taken.
The PSC cautioned Nigerians to beware of the fraudsters as they are on the prowl to dupe unsuspecting citizens.
