The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria and the police hierarchy to quickly action the payment of arrears of salaries of police officers.
This was also as the organisation alleged that some people in the system were pocketing money due to these officers.
The Executive Director of RULAAC, Okechukwu Nwanguma, who mentioned this at the organisation’s office in Egbeda, Lagos State during a media parley, said he had attended a police programme and was just leaving some policemen cornered him and told him about their plight over the payment of arrear of their salaries.
Nwanguma stated: “You can’t be talking about police corruption when you’re owing them money due to them.
“We call for the payment of arrears of salaries of police officers.
“We call for radical improvement in police welfare, as a means of humanising the police and checking corruption.
“Apart from owing them arrears of salaries, some officers, after being promoted, continued to be paid salaries based on their previous rank for about six months.
“Some people in the system are pocketing the money due to these officers.
“The corruption in the system takes many dimensions.”
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