intensifies, investigations byhave revealed that the NPF obtained a presidential approval to spend N16.8bn on the exercise.Insights into how the NPF obtained the presidential approval for the recruitment of the 10,000 constables are contained in the documents.
He also directed that after the minister’s review, the budget should be included in the 2019 Appropriation Bill.The documents containing these and obtained by one of our correspondents on Friday were filed as exhibits in a suit instituted before the Federal High Court in Abuja in September over the ongoing supremacy battle between the PSC and the NPF.
Banking on the approval which the ex-IG obtained from Kyari, the respondents stated in their counter-affidavit opposing the PSC’s suit, “It is also known as a fact that the plaintiff has never submitted any budget for the purpose of the recruitment of 10,000 police officers of lower cadre to the Minister of Budget and National Planning for review and no such budget from the plaintiff is contained in the 2019 budget of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
They also included maintenance of facilities at police training institutions ; feeding of trainees ; allowances and salaries of trainees ; clothing & accoutrement ; teaching and technical aids ; indoor shooting range and teaching allowances for training/support staff . He gave the ex-IG a deadline of October 10, 2018 to provide the information “to enable the President’s consideration and further directives.”
Lastly, the letter, a copy of which was sent to the minster, “directed the HMBNP to include the recruitment budget after concluding the review in the 2019 Appropriation Bill.” The plaintiff had subsequently filed an amended originating summons to reflect the full list of the four respondents to the suit.
On November 4, 2019, Justice Ekwo, who heard the case at the Federal High Court in Abuja, reaffirmed an order for the parties to the suit to maintain the status quo. They contended that preliminary objection to the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the suit on October 29, 2019 and the judge was duly informed about it on November 4, when the suit came up for hearing.Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police, Adamu, has requested the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, to assign the suit challenging his takeover of the recruitment of 10,000 constables by the PSC to Justice Okon Abang.
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nawooool may God help Nigeria
Nigeria is descending into constitutional doldrums. If not that there are lot of things wrong with our system, where does the PoliceNG derive powers to recruit into Police Force? They even showed disdain by declaring interest in a particular Judge. What a country!
Is he recruiting angels?
Yeeeepaaa! N16.8bn for wetin? is the police recruiting 10m people into the force
16.8bn.... What is he recruiting?
Lool.. It's aite. Continue
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