Police sends warning to officers planning to embark on a strike | By: Adebayo Akinkunmi

The Nigeria Police Pressure has despatched a warning to officers planning to embark on a strike, stating that such motion shall be handled as mutiny and disobedience to lawful order.

The warning was given by Commissioner of Police (CP) in Kebbi State, Musa Baba who addressed officers and males of the Command in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday March 24.

Baba additionally urged members of the Inspectorate, Rank and File to discard the deliberate strike being “circulated within the media by mischief makers”.

He stated;

“Let me equally remind you that the police are a regimented group, and any strike motion by its members shall be thought of as mutiny and disobedience to lawful order with its penalties.

“Police work wants contribution of one and all because the safety, which includes safety of individuals’s lives and properties, wants one and all’s blessing.

“The Inspector-Normal of Police, Alkali Baba-Usman, is working tirelessly to make sure that the welfare of members of rank and file is improved.”

“The hearsay of strike you may have been listening to going spherical isn’t coming from the Nigeria Police Pressure headquarters.

“Fairly it’s from mischief makers and unpatriotic Nigerians who’re hell-bent on knocking down the morale and power of our cops.

“You’re all conscious that strike within the police is mutiny, and police work is a piece guided by self-discipline and regulation.

“With out defending individuals’s lives and properties, society shall be in chaotic and anarchical state of affairs, which we’re half and parcel of, as we’re the individuals inhabiting the society.”

The commissioner additionally instructed the officers that their welfare and all entitlement attributable to them could be improved and settled, therefore the institution of Police Belief Fund.

Baba added;

“The IGP has now permitted the distribution of kits and different gear to all instructions and formations in Nigeria in a drive to bolster safety within the nation”

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