The House of Representatives on Wednesday charged the Inspector General of Police and the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to consider recruitment of members of community policing constabulary scheme and volunteers into the NPF and NSCDC respectively.
The resolution of the House followed the adoption of a motion titled, ‘Need to Consider the Recruitment of Community Policing Constabulary Scheme and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps volunteers into the Nigeria Police Force and Civil Defence Corps,’ moved by the member representing Gummi/Bukuyum Federal Constituency, Zamfara State, Sulaiman Gumi.
Leading the debate on the floor of the Green Chamber during plenary on Wednesday, Gummi noted that in July 2019, the then Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum and former Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, after meeting with the former President, Muhammad Buhari, stated that plans were on to use N-power beneficiaries to kick-start community policing in the country.
He said, “Note that the proposal put up by the Federal Government and the 36 State Governors to recruit 500,000 volunteers across the 774 Local Government Areas of the country through the N-power programme was designed to tackle the shortage of manpower in the Nigeria Police Force.”
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