According to report by Punch,There is disquiet among the workers of the Police Service Commission over the promotion of nearly all the security aides of former President Goodluck Jonathan by the board of the commission.
The Commander, MOPOL 24, the police unit in charge of the former President’s family was promoted from Chief Superintendent of Police to Assistant Commissioner of Police, and some unit commanders were elevated from Deputy Superintendent of Police to Superintendent of Police.
But a junior officer, who served at the Presidential Villa under the promoted commander, said he and some of his colleagues did not benefit from the exercise.
“We heard that all the security personnel attached to the former First family would benefit from the special promotion before we were redeployed out of the Villa, but the junior officers have yet to get their promotion letters, only the senior officers benefitted from the promotion,” said the policeman, who for obvious reasons did not want his name in print.
The PSC board also approved special promotions for the police officers that worked with Jonathan’s wife, Patience, allegedly in contravention of the ban on special promotion by the past PSC board headed by Parry Osayande, a retired deputy inspector general of police.
It was learnt that the incumbent PSC board had overturned some reforms instituted by its predecessor, such as the ban on special promotion for policemen and resolution of disciplinary cases within 90 days.
Workers of the commission, who spoke to our correspondent in Abuja, said that the PSC led by a former Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, had yet to investigate or resolve many cases of extrajudicial killings, brutality, illegal detention, harassment, extortion and other misconduct by police officers.
