MUTINY: Over 2000 police officers in Kaduna protest non-payment of salaries

Unable to endure any longer, more than 2,000 Nigeria Police personnel in Kaduna State Command on Monday engaged in a protest to demand for the payment of their August and September salaries.

The protesting security men cut across the rank and file of the state Police Command. The protest took place in front of the Salaries Office located inside the Command headquarters in Kaduna Town.

Meanwhile the State Commissioner of Police, Cyril Abeh, has said that the officers were yet to receive their salaries for those months, because of the Finance Ministry’s IPPS office and that it’s not the fault of the police.

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He said, “They are police officers operating under the law, if they misbehave, we will deal with them according to the law. This is mutiny.

“I am in the field attending to a very important security matter, but will be on my way back to headquarters to address them now.”

It was learnt that currently, policemen in eight states, namely Kaduna, Bayelsa, Imo, Kebbi, Gombe, Nasarawa, Ekiti and Ogun are owned August and September salaries.

 

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