The Nigeria Police Force on Monday described fake and mischievous claims of purported plans by its personnel to embark on strike.
The police clarified a statement by the acting Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.
He said the claims, circulating in some social media handles, on plans by some personnel of the force to embark on strike from March 26, was a mischievous attempt by unscrupulous individuals.
Adejobi said the claims were to bring the force to disrepute, misinform the public, and heat the polity.
“It is pertinent to restate that the Nigeria Police Force is a regimented and disciplined organization with laid down rules and guidelines for addressing grievances and in no circumstance is a strike action one of such means.
“The men and women of the Nigeria Police Force are fully aware that a strike action or other deliberate disruption of law enforcement services by any security organization is mutinous.
“Personnel of the Force would not degenerate at any point to that level of disloyalty and indiscipline, as policing services are paramount and essential in the maintenance of orderliness and peace in the nation,”, He said.
Adejobi said the Inspector General of Police (IG-P), Usman Baba Alkali, was accelerating efforts to ensure full implementation of the increment of salaries and allowances proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari and approved by the Federal Executive Council.
He said it was important to accentuate that it was the president’s initiative without any demand from the Police to direct the process of increasing salaries and allowances.
“Since the approval, the Salaries, Income and Wages Commission has issued an implementation circular.
“The Minister of Police Affairs and the I-G have been working with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to ensure the stoppage of tax deductions as directed by the President and approved by the Federal Executive Council,”, He said.
The FPRO said police officers under the leadership of the current IG-P were well motivated with the ongoing reforms, especially the provision of kits, accouterments, body armor, and the cooperative society’s housing scheme.
He said the administration had also embarked on the renovation of training schools, upgrade of police training curriculum, procurement, ent and deployment of technology to boost ICT-driven policing.
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