EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Police Personnel Call For 30-day Fasting Over Delayed Promotions, Good Welfare
They accused the leadership of the police of being insensitive to their predicament.
Some incorrect-and-file personnel of the Nigeria Police Power luxuriate in commenced 30-day fasting and prayers over their delayed promotions.
The officers who’re constables and sergeants were closing promoted in 2018.
They accused the leadership of the police of being insensitive to their predicament.
In a signal solely bought by SaharaReporters and signed by one C.J. Chigbu on behalf of the affected officers, the essence of the fasting and prayers is to glance God’s favour for the settlement of their entitlements.
It’s miles titled, ‘30 Days Fasting And Prayer For The Free up Of 2018 Promotion.’
It reads, “I BRING SOLIDARITY GREETINGS TO ALL 2018 PC INTAKE AND ALL SGT PROMOTED 2018 XX
“SEQUEL TO THE DELAYANCED OF 2018 PROMOTION XX ALL THE AFFECTED OFFICERS ARE URGED TO ENGAGE IN 30 DAYS FASTING AND PRAYERS XX TO HASTEN THE RELEASE OF THE PROMOTION XXX THE EXEMPTION OF NIGERIAN POLICE FORCE FROM CONTRIBUTORY PENSION SCHEME SHOULD BE NOTED AS A PRAYER POINTS XXX ABOVE FOR YOUR INFORMATION XXX XXX XXX XXX
ALUTA CONTINUE X VICTORIA ACERTA.”
Lately, SaharaReporters solely reported that some senior officers of the Nigeria Police Power alleged that the Police Provider Price gave particular promotions to junior officers above senior ones after allegedly collecting $10,000 as bribe.
“The mother of your entire corruption is a listing of some officers most of whom are serving in Lagos Voice Enlighten, they’ve paid as grand as ten thousand US Greenbacks ($10,000) to some famous other folks in Police Provider Price, for them to be given particular promotions to their next incorrect and luxuriate in their dates of promotion backdated beneath the disguise of community solutions,” the aggrieved senior officers had talked about in a assertion.
Reacting to the allegation, the PSC closing Thursday denied the document nevertheless talked about that it had organize a committee to investigate the allegations within the SaharaReporters’ ordinary yarn.
The Price also directed the police to fish out a whistleblower who uncovered that the Price gave particular promotions to junior officers above superior ones after collecting a bribe of $10,000.
But reacting to the bribery scandal, a neighborhood of Senior Police Officers on Thursday decried the corruption within the price and known as on President Buhari, the National Assembly and anti-graft agencies to fleet investigate the allegation.
The neighborhood talked about that it’s far wretched that the “Price is supposed to luxuriate in jettisoned standards by enticing in collecting bribes for promotion, exonerating officers reported to be complicit in expert misconduct, etc,” including that “They manufacture this by approach of assigning themselves slots for promotion which is an aberration.”
The neighborhood further alleged that “the six commissioners, all directors and deputy directors fragment slots to themselves wherein they later sell same to interested contributors of the force.
“They went as far as utilizing the police occupation at the expense of nation constructing, manufacture fragment promotion slots to first-class chiefs, Governors, Senators, etc. Where is that this done? Wherein country on this planet earth will human beings be this callous, reckless and deliberate in killing an institution such because the police? To boot they quiz monies to exonerate officers supposed to be alive to on fascinating practices.”
The neighborhood alleged that “Some officers who made the listing obtained particular promotion four and others three consecutive instances. Others are in actuality, sadly being promoted from one necessary particular person to some stars.
“It’s miles also on story that heaps of beneficiaries of the actual promotion were promoted appropriate closing year nevertheless doctored their date of closing promotion to read two years earlier. The lists which might well well be no longer from the of gallantry and exemplary conducts ought to be dropped without extend to chill the stress within the method and order most productive due direction of is adopted within the police career development.
“Lastly, the listing of the promotion beneath the “particular” promotion criteria also did no longer plug via the commonplace diagram which allows that the IGP makes solutions and ship to the PSC most productive to imagine the advice for approval. This discover ability that the PSC can unilaterally promote and most productive show the IGP for implementation which is no longer the commonplace diagram.”
“For the wait on of doubt, the Chief Safety Officer (CSO) of the FCT Minister is appropriate 13 years in provider and already making the most of the rascal particular promotion to the erroneous of ACP. There might be rarely any any construct of attack on the FCT Minister that the CSO used to be plucky in saving his lifestyles or that of his family. A quantity of such instances abound and one can name them over 150 beneficiaries of this rascality in high areas.
“One other instance is one SP Gadzama Musa who used to be a corporal in 2011 and now being promoted to CSP. His mates are serene Inspectors.
“Also one SP Shaba essentially the most contemporary CSO to the Govt Governor of IMO Voice who used to be an inspector in 2017 and now being promoted to CSP leaves so grand to be desired.
“Any other time one SP Musa Gadzama who used to be a corporal in 2011 and used to be appropriate promoted closing year in July, barely 9 months within the past to the erroneous of SP, nevertheless his promotion used to be doctored with the connivance of the staff of PSC to read as if he used to be certified per the two years minimum pegged by the PSC.”