Inspector-General of Police,
Suleiman Abba
Salaries of the missing 30 mobile policemen in Borno State would be stopped by April 2015, if the men failed to show up at their squadron units.
According
to PUNCH , the policemen were declared missing in August after an attack on the
Police Training School, Gwoza, Borno State, by Boko Haram insurgents.
Investigations
by our correspondent indicated that the missing personnel might be given up for
dead if they did not report to their commanding officers by the end of the
first quarter of the New Year.
It
was however learnt that the missing police personnel would be declared dead
formally after seven years.
About
159 personnel drawn from Mopol 50, Abuja; Mopol 38, Akwanga and Mopol 58,
Lafia, Nasarawa State, were undergoing training at the school when Boko Haram
gunmen attacked them on August 20,2014, killing some and seizing their arms and
ammunition.
A
number of the policemen escaped but 30 of them are yet to be accounted for,
three months after the incident.
Though
the Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, had expressed hope that the men
might be alive but he was silent on the efforts being made to search for them.
Our
correspondent learnt that the salaries of the affected personnel might be
suspended if their emolument forms were not submitted to the officers-in-charge
of the Mechanised Salary Sections, who process police salaries.
It
was learnt that the emolument forms had been given to the rank and file to be
filled and submitted before the end of the year.
Findings
indicated that any backlog salaries of the missing officers would be paid the
moment they show up to fill the emolument form.
IGP should
also published the names and pictures of the missing policemen. I don’t know
why he’s handling the issue with kid gloves. What about their wives and kids? Who
is going to take care of them now. Or they have to wait seven years too. What about
children school fees? A lot of questions for Abba.
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