Tension is building up within the rank and file of the Nigerian Police Force over alleged discriminatory promotion exercise carried out in the service in recent time.
A Petition against the alleged promotion, which was forwarded to the Presidency and the National Assembly, by a group, which identified itself as Concerned Nigerian Citizens, was signed by one Mr Fred Nwa.
He alleged that not less than 900 Police officers on the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), were aggrieved for deliberately being sidelined in the last promotion exercise carried out by the Force.
Specifically, the officers as stated in the petition, were aggrieved that while hundreds of their course mates (ASP Course 2010), were promoted to the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police ( DSP) or given double promotions to the rank of Superintendent of Police (SP) last year, they were not considered in anyway.
They further alleged that even with available slots of 6899 for officers on the rank of DSP in the force, going by directive given to that effect by the Police Service Commission, the Police hierarchy was not looking at that direction.
The petition, specifically accused officers in the office of the Force Secretary, of perpetrating the discriminatory exercise within the force by narrowing down on one Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of Discipline, ACP Jonathan Toworu.
According to them, Toworu had at different fora in recent time, boasted that the affected officers of Course 1/2010, would never be promoted as long as he occupied his seat where he had allegedly spent 10 years.
They, therefore, pleaded in the petition that the presidency should mandate the Police Management Team and the Police Service Commission to look into the discrimination in the promotion scheme and in particular, look into the activities of ACP Jonathan Toworu, alongside the evil manipulation and selective promotion perpetuated by his office.
The petition received on the 7th of March in the Senate, is however, yet to be treated by the Committee on Public Petitions, Ethics and Privileges.
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