Police recruitment tussle: PSC approves salary payment for 1007 intakes
BY ANDREW OROLUA
After six months of agony, the Police Service Commission ,PSC, finally approved salary payments for 1007 policemen who were 2021/2022 recruitment intake that causes crisis between it and Nigeria Police.
The new intakes had since passed out of the Police College and posted to different Police Commands and formations but without salary due to the lingering crisis between Nigeria Police and PSC.
They had worked without salary for six months due to the crisis between Nigeria Police and PSC over who has the statutory power to recruit new intake.
A Statement by PSC spokesman Ikechukwu Ani said the Commission took the “decision in the interest of national security anchored on the need to amicably resolution of the lingering issues of recruitment between the Commission and the Nigeria Police Force which have occasioned untold hardship on the Police Constables.”
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“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 faceoff between the Commission and the Nigeria Police Force.
“The Commission’s approval for the enrollment of 1007 recruited personnel into the Nigeria Police Force 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.
“In the letter signed by Dr. (Mrs) Ifeoma A. Anyanwutaku, Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Commission and dated, 5th May 2023, the Commission 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 Commission’s Chairman Dr. Solomon Arase, CFR, former Inspector General of Police, 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.
It said that, “Dr. Arase had announced at a Stakeholders meeting with Civil Society Organizations that the face off between the Commission and the Nigeria Police Force will soon be over to the benefit of both parties and the greater interest of the Nigerian nation.”
