Police recruitment and tear gas

 Inspector - General, Mohammed Adamu

I thought we would have learnt from the fiasco that recruitment into Immigration Service turned into. Recruitment into Government Agencies

is a Civic responsibility and not a favour.

Those who seek employment into Government agencies deserve to be treated with a modicum of decency.

Whatever happened to staggering the recruitment after ascertaining the number of Applicants? For a start it is not all who apply or show up, that are qualified.

A decent procedure to follow is to advertise the available spaces. Receive applications and shortlist candidates. This is an age old system that should serve all concerned. But in the face of the current mass unemployment in the country, the more muddled the process, the easier it is for the recruiters to make hay from the process.

While I do not subscribe to illegal lucre, I am more concerned with the dignity of the recruits and how not to initiate them into savagery. For with every obstacle they face, the harder and less humane they become.

We as a Nation may not be mindful of this but truth be told, the kind of training our public officials undergo to a large extent makes a monster out of them.

I understand that Police recruits in the Police College are victims of extortion by their handlers. 

How then do we expect them to be civil in serving the hapless public?