Police recruitment: Court fixes date to deliver judgement on suit filed by PSC

The trial judge, Justice INYANG EKWO, fixed the date after hearing arguments from counsel representing parties in the suit.

Counsel to the Police Service Commission, KANU AGABI, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, held that contrary to arguments earlier canvassed by the Attorney- General of the Federation, the fourth defendant in the suit, there was no distinction between recruitment and appointment.

AGABI further argued that there was no constitutional provision to back the claim that recruitment of police personnel from time immemorial has been done by the Inspector -General of Police, adding that the responsibility of the PSC is to recruit police personnel and not that of the IGP and that allowing the IGP to conduct recruitment, would be usurping powers of the commission.

But Counsel to the Nigeria Police Force, ALEX IZIYON also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in his submission said the Nigeria Police Force the IGP, and the Minister of Police Affairs sees the suit as frivolous and scandalous.