In a bid to resolve the employment dispute between the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) the Commission has approved salary payments for the 2021/2022 Police recruits who passed out of the Police Colleges and have been in different Police Commands and formations since the past six months without salary…..CONTINUE READING...CONTINUE READING
PSC in a press statement by the Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, Sunday in Abuja, the decision was reached in the interest of national security anchored on the need to amicably resolve the lingering issues of recruitment which had occasioned untold hardship on the Police Constables.
“The Commission’s prompt response also followed outcry and appeals from Nigerians that the 2021/2022 Police recruits who are yet to be enrolled into the federal government’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), and who had not received salaries, six months after they passed out from the Police Colleges and duly posted to Police Commands and formations for active Police work, are not made victims of the face off between the Commission and the NPF.
“The Commission’s approval for the enrollment of 1,007 recruited personnel into the NPF in the recruitment exercise of 2021/2022 into the IPPIS payment platform for the purposes of salaries and other emoluments has been conveyed to the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF).
“In the letter signed by the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Commission, Dr. (Mrs) Ifeoma A. Anyanwutaku,
and dated May 5, 2023, PSC requested for “prompt and favourable response in activating and emplacing the necessary processes and procedures at ensuring that these police officers are immediately captured on the required payment platform and paid accordingly,” the statement read in part.
According to Ani, “The Commission’s Chairman, IGP Solomon Arase (retd.), feels a sense of discomfiture over newspaper reports that the Officers had since resorted to alms begging and other untidy acts to sustain themselves and had moved immediately to resolve all pending and envisaged issues surrounding the matter…..CONTINUE READING
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