The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba has explained why police men don’t enjoy allowances and benefits.
The IG attributed the problem to the paltry allocation to the Nigeria Police.
He said in 2014, N287 billion was appropriated for personnel cost, but the money faced a shortfall of N6.5 billion and many police commands could not conclude payment of salaries, rent allowances, tax, cooperative deductions.
According to him, the development made it difficult for the police authority to conclude the payment of personnel emolument in 2014.
Abba made this clarifications in a document on the 2015 budget Defence presented by the IG to the Senate Committee on Police Affairs obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Friday.
He said, “With respect to personnel cost, the reduction of the initial sum of N293,526,624,260 to N287,061,950,723 which gave rise to a shortfall of N6,464673,537 has made it impossible to successfully conclude the payment of personnel emolument in 2014.
“The 42 salary payment centres nationwide are having issues remitting on-payment deductions such as tax, cooperative deduction and also payment of rent allowances”.
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