Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has given the go-ahead on the recruitment of 10,000 officers in the next six years to increase the manpower in the force in order to battle the current insecurity crisis.
He had previously said the recruitment has begun since 2020,stressing that by 2022 the Nigeria Police Force would have increased by 20,000.
The Inspector General who spoke on Wednesday at the Kwara State Police command along Ahmadu bello way Ilorin during his one day working visit to the command also described Kwara at the most peaceful state among its contemporaries in the area because of its low cases of crimes.
He explained that the recruitment would be conducted across the 774 local governments in the country and that indigents from respective councils would be given priorities.
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