Some Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASP), have
kicked against the continual delay of their promotion and the humiliation of
becoming junior officers to their course mates.
According to them, there are about 3000 of them that
hadn’t been promoted and are suffering this humiliation.
Since the present Inspector-General of Police, Mr.
Ibrahim Idris, took over the leadership of the force, there have been pockets
of agitations from different police quarters, urging him to right many lopsided
promotions carried out by the last police administration.
Although Idris was said to have started correcting
this, but many policemen argued that they were yet to feel the impact of his
changes in their situations.
Yesterday, some of these policemen wrote a petition
to the New Telegraph, titled, ‘Unjust Marginalization of the Nigeria Police
Force against Inspector to ASP.”
In the letter, they urged Idris to probe the
situation and explain to them why and how their course mates became their
seniors.
The letter states: “We were promoted to the rank of
Inspector in 2010 and passed our confirmation in 2012. In the year 2015, we
were called to face the Nigeria Police Board at Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan, in
which some of us were recommended to the rank of ASP II.
“Some people were recommended to principal and
senior inspectors, some of these recommendations have been partially done,
while most of us that were recommended to ASP II are still pending. The ugly
aspect of it is that some inspectors, promoted in 2012 and 2013, were given
promotion to ASP without attending any Police Board screening. We want to know
what is delaying our promotion, even after we had been recommended. We want to
know why our course mates have suddenly become our seniors.”
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