Police Pacify Restive Officers Over Delay In Payment Of New Police Payrise, Preaches Endurance At Jumat Service

Police officers nationwide appear to have taken the Federal Government off their Christmas list after waiting in vain for the payment of upgraded salaries and rent subsidies approved and confirmed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Several reasons, including non-availability of funds, are being given for the non-payment of the approved upgrade which the President had ordered to take effect from November 1, 2018, and be funded from the Nation’s treasury.

Part of the blames was also apportioned to some inconsistencies in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

IPPIS, which began with seven Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), in 2007, is one of the Federal Government’s public finance reforms aimed at determining the actual strength of its workers and helping with budgeting as well as annual planning.

NewsmakersNG learnt that the salaries and allowances might come three months in arrears before the elections next year, as officers spoke of such experience in the past when they were paid their salaries upgraded by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua six months in arrears.

During a Jumat service in a mosque at a police formation in Oduduwa yesterday, the Imam’s voice wafting through public space on loudspeakers pleaded with officers not to take such matters to heart.

In his messages, the Police Imam also urged the officers to shun corruption and commit their cause to God.

Since NewsmakersNG broke the news of the upgrade in police salaries and rent subsidy, there have been a series of queries on search engines captured on a daily basis by the online newspaper on the what, when, and how the new salaries would be.

The queries on search engines captured by NewsmakersNG included, “Any news from the state about NPF salary for Xmas Dec 2018? Police new salary structure; do new police salaries require Senate approval?

For those who are curious about the nature of the upgrade, NewsmakersNG has learnt that the Federal Government’s package would only move officers to the next level of their civil service grade salaries along with the token added to the housing allowance.

Source: newsmakersng.com