Kwara State Police Command has dissociated itself from a viral video on social media regarding a protest by some purported policemen over the non-payment of one year’s salary.
Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Okasanmi Ajayi in Ilorin on Saturday, said the characters seen in the video were police special constabularies recruited to complement the operation of community policing.
“It is important to state that the concept of community policing and recruitment of special constabularies is voluntary in nature, meaning they are not on monthly remuneration like the conventional policemen.
” This much the constabularies were briefed before taking up the job, besides, the job is not a full-time job.
“Due to the complaints of the constabularies regarding nonpayment of stipends by the state government, the constabularies were invited for a meeting by the state government on ways by which their complaints could be looked into, hence their invite to the government house today.
“It was surprising that the same set of constabularies after the meeting with agents of the state government could go online with a video claiming that the government was owing them salaries for a year,” the spokesman stated.
The Commissioner of Police, Tuesday Assayomo, has also stated categorically, that the police is not owing any policeman or woman any salary, nor is the police owing the special constabularies salary.
“Therefore, members of the public are advised to disregard the viral video as it was designed to embarrass the police and also to draw undue sympathy from the public.
“The men and women of the special constabulary are at liberty to honorably disengage from the service if they so wish,” the Commissioner declared.