Tours S’East on security assessment.
By Steve Oko
UMUAHIA — The Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Logistics and the South-East, DIG Kenechukwu Onwuemelie, has dismissed insinuations that repentant terrorists are being recruited into the Nigeria Police Force, insisting that no deradicalised individual is absorbed into the police system.
Fielding questions from newsmen during a stakeholders’ security engagement at the Police Officers’ Mess, Umuahia, Abia State, on Monday, Onwuemelie said: “police recruitment follows established procedures, including screening and vetting of applicants.”
“There is a system of recruiting into the police. We make announcements, screen applicants, and recruit qualified persons. I am not aware of any deradicalised person being automatically integrated into the police service,” he said.
