PAY OUR ALLOWANCES BEFORE WE RETIRE –POLICE OFFICERS

Some of the newly promoted Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASP) in the Plateau State Police Command have called on the Chairman of Police Service Commission (PSC), Sir Mike Okiro, and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to pay their eight months promotion allowances before they retire from service.
The officers are afraid that should the allowances remain unpaid till they retire from service, they may never be paid again.
The over 100 ASPs said they were promoted in January 2011 and confirmed in May 2012 but are yet to collect the commensurate salaries for the promotion until January 2014.
The officers alleged that the police authorities in Plateau State refused to pay their promotion arrears despite claims from the Police Budget Office that the allowances had been paid into the coffers of state command.
They also claimed that some of the beneficiaries of the promotion had retired while many others had died.
The ASPs consequently appealed that those still remain in service should be paid their arrears before retirement.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Olakpe, however, confirmed that the officers were owed the allowances but that efforts were being intensified to pay them.
Source: National Mirror