BUHARI’S CHRISTMAS BONUS FOR THE POLICE

By FEMI ADESINA

They were born just like any other person. They have fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, wives, children, just like the next man or woman. They pound their beats, in thunder, lightning or rain. The sun beats them till their eyes almost pop out of the sockets. But we accord them no respect, we esteem them as men of sorrow, acquainted with grief. They are policemen, and must be treated like something the cat dragged in, article of no commercial value.

During the EndSARS protests of October 2020, see what happened to our cops: 39 were killed, with one roasted and eaten, 210 injured, their stations and barracks worth N11.6 billion were burnt, along with 198 police vehicles, 9 Armoured Personnel Cars. Also razed were Police Communication Equipment worth N5.8 billion, and 422 exhibit vehicles valued at N5.5 billion.

The police were the main reason the protests took place in the first instance, but then, do you first annihilate an institution that needs reforms? They had their excesses, but is decapitation the cure for headache?

President Muhammadu Buhari in the wake of the EndSARS protests promised to reform the police, including looking into their welfare and enhancing their status. It is now promise made, and promise kept, as the Federal Executive Council unfolded a new deal for the police. It is like a Christmas bonus, which came at the end of the year.

Following the promise of the President in 2020, probe panels were instituted by states to look into the excesses of the police, and recommend sanctions and compensations where necessary, while a stakeholders committee was also set up to look into the welfare of the police.

See the parlous conditions of members of an institution we gave arms and ammunition to, and we asked to protect us.

*At least 1,898 personnel were not paid outstanding insurance benefits for the period of 2013 to 2020.

*Death benefits were not paid to families of 5,472 personnel, who died on active duty between 2013 and 2021.

*Financial claims amounted to N1,128, 174, 150.00 in respect of the 1,898 uninsured personnel.

*Death benefits amounted to N13,127,197,269.48, while burial expenses amounted to N1,234,520.000.00, for personnel who died between 2012 and 2021.

A working group set up at the instance of President Buhari, came up with recommendations, which have now been approved by the Federal Executive Council. They include:

*The release of over one billion, one hundred and twenty-eight million for the payment of outstanding benefits to 1,898 personnel for the period 2013 to 2020.

*The release of over 13 billion for the payment of outstanding death benefits.

*Tax waiver in the sum of over N18 billion per annum for all junior personnel in order to increase their take-home emoluments.

*Increase of rent subsidy from 15-20% to 40% of the Consolidated Police Salary Structure (CONPOSS).

*Payment of additional 6% shift duty allowance.

*Payment of 20% of COMPOSS as peculiar allowance to boost morale and take-home pay of the police.

All these, and more, are to take effect from the 2022 appropriation act, thus improving the welfare of our police personnel.

Will it automatically translate to better behavior, and elimination of bribery and corruption? Not by the waving of a wand. But it would signpost the beginning of caring for the police. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

History will record President Buhari as the man who began to take practical steps in repositioning the welfare of the police. They would no longer be regarded as scum, and would earn respect from a society that loves to look down on them. I tell you, this President cares.

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity

IMO, no Nigeria police officer deserves bonus.!

Kriss216:
IMO, no Nigeria police officer deserves bonus.!

After you have eaten them finish at Orji flyover shame to you..... cannibal

Fuel shortages during December festive season is now a thing of the past..

Bonus for our police officers during festive season

God bless Buhari, Osinbajo and Apc

God bless Nigeria

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Fvckery

They have not paid federal government workers salary for Xmas sef

Hmm.....honestly the police really needs to be reform as people has been calling, reforms that will shape their financial well being sef. Listened to a retired commissioner of police claiming he earns seventy-five thousand naira monthly as pension, that was on a live radio program

Kudos to the government

Hope this stop the bad ones from taking bribe on the road

Why is this thread connecting BUHARIIIIIIII with Christmas. Just say police benefits which one be Christmas

#ReformThePolice

Why was that policeman eaten tho

Damnnn niggar
Isoright

Nice gesture.

helinues:
Fuel shortages during December festive season is now a thing of the past..

Bonus for our police officers during festive season

God bless Buhari, Osinbajo and Apc

God bless Nigeria

confused clown



you will soon criticize the govt and praise them in another thread. improper fraction



celebrating mediocre

Honestly, Buhari dey try..

Nigerians are simply difficult people.

2023 is less than 13month

Hope they won't eat police this Xmas for east

Bonus wey no reach what some of us pay as tax, Buhari spreading poverty like plague, Femi Adesina and glorifying poverty. mediocrity at its best y’all deserve one another

Highly commendable.

We still get Trillions of debt to pay back ooooo

Police is naigiria na rubbish!

The more you add money to their salary, the more impetus to harass citizens increases..

We need an overhaul!

Kosoco:
After you have eaten them finish at Orji flyover shame to you..... cannibal

U really finished him

Femi Adesina; The Storyteller

Neymessi:
They have not paid federal government workers salary for Xmas sef

Nawa ooo.

God Bless PMB , May God Also Bless Protect & Guild the Path of Our Police & Military

Wiifesnatcher:



confused clown



you will soon criticize the govt and praise them in another thread. improper fraction

u de mind that persin
this is y some youth are bought wit change" always having double mouth "

Wiifesnatcher:



confused clown



you will soon criticize the govt and praise them in another thread. improper fraction

Yeah, that's how it should be done.

Praise them when they do good and knock them when they disappoint.

Not like the useless oppositions we have in the country that all what they know is to wail and blame others for their lives woes

Neymessi:
They have not paid federal government workers salary for Xmas sef

Who told you this rubbish you are saying?