From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
Some police Inspectors of South east origin, who said they were October to December 2000 intakes of the Nigeria Police Force, have cried out over alleged marginalization occasioned by non promotion.
In an interview, the affected Inspectors who said they were promoted Inspectors on February 19, 2018 and confirmed on May 5, 2020, lamented that their mates from other geo-political zones have been promoted to the rank of ASPs in 2023.
They also alleged that another of their sets who were promoted in 2017 and confirmed in 2019, were due to go to the Promotion Board as their names have been forwarded to Abuja to be promoted to ASP rank, and the police authorities abandoning those from the South east who were recruited the same year with them.
“Those of us left behind in the current exercise, but who are due for promotion are asking the offence we committed that made the police authority to abandon us.”
They said it was wrong for them to be running the same date of promotion with their juniors who were recruited in 2001, instead of promoting them alongside their mates who are already ASPs.
“Those of us police Inspectors who are behind our mates are asking why the promotion discrepancy on the October to December 2000 police recruit intakes of the South-east origin.”
They appealed to the Inspector General of Police to direct that those recruited from October to December 2000 in the whole of South east who were promoted Inspectors in 2018, join their mates whose names have already been sent to Abuja for Departmental Selection Board (DSB) for promotion to ASPs.