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IGP asks Supreme Court to stay judgment nullifying 10, 000 Constables Recruitment.  

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Godwin Tsa, Abuja.
The  Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has asked the Supreme Court to set aside  the  judgment of the Court of Appeal which  overturned the recruitment of 10,000 constables carried out by him and the Nigeria Police Force last year.
This is contained in his 20 grounds notice of appeal filed against the judgment by his counsel, Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN).
Besides, the appellant has equally prayed the court to stay the execution of the judgment pending the determination of the appeal.
The fresh notice of appeal incorporates the earlier one containing only three grounds of appeal earlier filed by the IGP along with the NPF and the Federal Ministry of Police Affairs, on October 2.
The three-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Olabisi Ige had in their  judgment unanimously held that the IGP and the NPF lacked the power to recruit the constables.
They  had held that the power to carry out the recruitment was exclusively that of the Police Service Commission (PSC) .
 The appeal court not only set aside the earlier judgment of the Federal High Court, Abjua, which had validated the IGP’s power of recruitment, it also nullified the actual recruitment of the 10,000 constables carried out by the IGP.
But in their new notice of appeal with 20 grounds, the appellants’ lawyer argued among others, that the power of the NPF and the IGP to enlist the recruit constables was distinct from the power of the PSC to appoint them.
 He faulted the Court of Appeal’s decision that the Nigeria Police Regulations 1968 conferring the power of “enlistment of recruit constables”  conferred on the NPF was inconsistent with the Nigerian Constitution.
 But the senior lawyer maintained that section 71 of the Police Regulation, 1968 was not synonymous with the power of “appointment” used in the Nigerian Constitution or the Police Service Commission (Establishment) Act.
 “The power to enlist recruit constables  conferred on the 1st appellant (NPF) is distinct and is not the same function conferred on the 1st respondent (PSC),” Izinyon argued.
 Izinyon  added that the procedure for enlistment of recruit constables  was specifically  provided in section 76 – 106 of the Nigeria Police Regulations, adding that the PSC “is not conferred with absolute power  on any power howsoever described to enlist recruit constables  into the 1st appellant (NPF)”.
 He also argued that  the Court of Appeal erred in law by relying on the definition of “recruitment” contained in Public Service Rules 2008, which he contended was not applicable to Nigerian Police Force.
 The senior lawyer  maintained that the appeal court’s reliance on the definition of “recruitment” contained in the Public Service Rules in determining what constituted “appointment” led to “a grave error of law”.
 The senior advocate also argued that the Court of Appeal caused a miscarriage of justice and a breach of fair hearing to the detriment of his clients by relying on sections 14 and 15 of the Police Act without giving parties to the case an opportunity to air their views on them before judgment was delivered.
 He also contended that the appeal court did not show how the Police Act and the Police Regulations, 1968 made by the President were inconsistent with the provisions of paragraph 30, Part 1 of the Third Schedule to the Nigerian Constitution.
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