Police Officers Enlisted In 1991, 1992 And 1993 Appeal To Police Service Commission To Be Promoted To The Next Rank

Yakubu Busari

A group of Police serving officers under the aegis of Asp1 enlisted in 1991, 1992 and 1993 as recruits who went through the board promotion examination in 2020, are now DSPs, and are making a passionate appeal to the Police Service Commission (PSC) to approve their next ranks of promotion.

In their open letter to the Chairman of PSC, Rtd DIG, Hashimu Argungu, to the Police Service Commission, they stated that they were enlisted as constables  91,92,93 went to the board in 2020. Still, the cadet inspectors were promoted ahead of them, since early 2025. Since then, nothing has been done about them, as they had since forwarded their three-year appeals. 

The Letter said the PSC decided in its last plenary meeting presided over by Rtd DIG Hashimu Argungu, its chairperson, which ended in Abuja. 

“The Police Service Commission should reconsider the appeals of other Police Officers and approve their promotion following the set of officers still hanging without promotion for years now,” the statement reads.

“The Commission should see the appeal of cadets 91, 92, & 93  even though they have submitted all the necessary documents due for their promotion to the next ranks.

“The Commission recently approved the conversion of 301 ICT professionals to general duty with their full promotion to the next ranks.

“The plenary meeting also approved the promotion of 48 staff of the Commission.”

According to the statement, we urge the commission to remain committed to ensuring fair hearing on cases of Nigerian Police serving officers across the country and “continue to ensure that appeals and petitions by police officers will be treated with dispatch so that no police officer is unjustly punished or denied his or her promotion as a result of unnecessary delay”.