Police Officers Stage Protest Over Unpaid Salaries in Kwara [VIDEO]

A group of police officers has staged a protest over unpaid overdue salaries.

In a video that has made rounds online, the officers were seen holding leaves as they protest in Kwara state.

 

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Reacting to the viral video, the state police command in a statement released by its spokesperson, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, dissociated itself from the protesting officers, adding that the police officers seen in the video are special constabularies who were recruited to complement the community safeguarding.

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The statement reads;

”It is important to state that the concept of community policing and recruitment of special constabularies is voluntary, meaning they are not on monthly renumeration like the conventional policemen. This much the constabularies were briefed before taken up the job, besides, the job is not full time job. 

 

Due to the complaints of the constabularies regarding non payment of stipends by the state government, the constabularies were invited for a meeting by the state government on ways by which their complains could be looked into, hence their invite to the government house today.

 

It was surprising that the same set of constabularies after the meeting with agents of the state government could go online with a video claiming that the government was owing them salaries for a year.”

 

Okasanmi added that the state Commissioner of Police, CP Tuesday Assayomo states that no officers were owed salaries, neither is the police owing the special constabularies salaries.

”Therefore, members of the public are advised to disregard the viral video as it was designed to embarrass the police and also to draw an undue sympathy from the public. 

The men and women of the special constabulary are at liberty to honorably disengage from the service if they so wish.’‘ the statement concluded

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