1000 Rivers Youths Apply For Police Recruitment

More than 1000 Rivers youths from the 23 local government areas of the state have indicated interest in the on-going recruitment exercise for the rank and file into the Nigeria Police Force.

The Special Adviser to the state governor on Project Monitoring, Hon Augustine Ngo who disclosed this yesterday stated that efforts were on to ensure that bonafide Rivers youths filled their quota in the exercise.

Hon Ngo, who is also chairman, Monitoring Committee on Police Recruitment in the state said only indigenes of the state would be recruited.

Towards ensuring this , he said that apart from local government identifications and academic credentials, only candidates who are able to speak their mother tongues would scale through the exercise.

According to Ngo, each local government area has to bring one representative who would test prospective recruits on the mother tongue issue to ensure only true indigenes of the state scaled the hurdle.

He also said other members of monitoring committee  include the spokesperson of the Rivers State police command, Dr Rita Inoma-Abbey, Director, Security Services in the office of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mr Joe Akpa and a Deputy Director, Mr Godpower O. Ordu.

Hon Ngo noted that about 400 persons would be recruited from Rivers State, adding that the police spokeperson, Dr Rita Inoma-Abbey is the head of the screening exercise  in the state.

Juile Jumbo