{"id":174849,"date":"2024-06-19T19:56:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-recruitment-controversy-psc-union-asks-tinubu-to-fire-igp-egbetokun\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:56:41","slug":"nigeria-police-recruitment-controversy-psc-union-asks-tinubu-to-fire-igp-egbetokun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-recruitment-controversy-psc-union-asks-tinubu-to-fire-igp-egbetokun\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Police Recruitment Controversy &#8211; PSC Union Asks Tinubu to Fire IGP Egbetokun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Joint Union Congress also asked Police Spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, to apologise to the public over his alleged misleading press statements on the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The Joint Union Congress of the Police Service Commission(PSC) has called on President Bola Timubu to immediately relieve the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inspector General of Police (IGP),<\/a><\/strong> Kayode Egbetokun, of his position for alleged anti-ethical behaviour and misconduct, which it sai\u010f could destroy the peace of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">It also called on the Force&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406190544.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Union Congress also asked Police Spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, to apologise to the public over his alleged misleading press statements on the matter. The Joint Union Congress of the Police Service Commission(PSC) has called on President Bola Timubu to immediately relieve the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, of his position for alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7065,9868,46672,6600,7412,257,4687,393,662,15941,8960,254,8308,6156],"class_list":["post-174849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asks","tag-controversy","tag-egbetokun","tag-fire","tag-igp","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-police","tag-psc","tag-recruitment","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}