The Police Service Commission (PSC yesterday raised the alarm that fraudsters had created a fake facebook account with the name of its Chairman of the commission, Mr. Mike Okiro, with the intent to defraud innocent applicants of their money.
In a statement signed by the commission’s Head of Media, Mr. Ikechukwu Ani, in Abuja, said the fraudsters are already demanding for money from applicants on the on-going police recruitment by the commission.
According to statement, the commission had concluded the various states screening and would soon begin the second phase of the process leading to the recruitment.
The statement further stressed: “The Chairman of the commission said that he has no Face book account and has never operated such account. He advised unsuspecting applicants to beware of the fraudsters and restrict themselves from being desperate for recruitment into the Force.” Okiro in the statement added that the recruitment would be transparent and based on merit.
Okiro, the statement said, would resist any pressure to undermine or compromise the integrity of the process and its outcome, warning that the fraudsters would soon be rounded up. He said the policewere already after them and will soon apprehend the culprits. In a note of warning to applicants, the chairman said anybody paying for any assistance to be recruited would definitely be disappointed, stressing that security operatives are on the alert to arrest those giving and the others that are receiving.
He said: “The public should report to the commission any underhand practices in respect of the recruitment.
“If they ask you to bring money, whether the fraudsters, our Staff or Police men, report to us and we will arrest and prosecute the person or persons.”
Successful applicants from the state screening, the statement added, would soon be invited for the next level of the process.