Africa Press-Nigeria:
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, has headed for the Supreme Court seeking to upturn Wednesday’s judgment of the Court of Appeal, which nullified the ongoing recruitment of 10,000 constables across the nation.
The notice of appeal of three grounds together was filed alongside an application for stay of execution of the Appeal Court’s judgment.
The Police Service Commission (PSC) had last year dragged the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), the Inspector General of Police, and the Minister of Police Affairs as first, second, and third respondents respectively to the Federal High Court in Abuja. The Attorney General was subsequently added as a fourth respondent.
The PSC had sought to restrain the defendants, their officers, and representatives, including anybody or person acting on their behalf from appointing, recruiting, or attempting to appoint or recruit by any means whatsoever any person into any office in the first defendant.
Delivering his judgment in the matter in December 2019, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court had dismissed the case.
The PSC then headed to the Court of Appeal.
A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Olabisi Ige on Wednesday unanimously held that the IGP and the NPF lacked the power to recruit the constables.
