EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria Police Set For New 2020 Promotion, See Date, Officers Affected

Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is set for a new promotion of its officers in the year 2020, Nigeria’s burgeoning online news platform, NewsOne Nigeria can authoritatively report.

NewsOne Nigeria exclusively gathered that the promotion which will be announced any moment from now will see the promotion of police officers whose names were omitted in the last promotion, in what can best be described as “justice for the affected officers.”

A police signal (Police Wireless Message) from Imo State, southeast Nigeria, obtained by NewsOne Nigeria, instructed that the Nigeria Police promotion which is coming up soon should include the “names of rank and file enlisted/promoted on or before December 2016.”

NewsOne Nigeria reports that the police signal (Police Wireless Message) also instructed that those Nigeria police officers “omitted in the last promotion whose date of last promotion was 7/12/2015 should also include their names for proper documentation.”

According to the police signal (Police Wireless Message) obtained by NewsOne Nigeria, the names of the police officers pencilled down for the promotion was to be submitted to the computer office on or before Monday, 24 February 2020 and “eye repeat” that same day in order to have a “detailed compilation and to avoid omission.”

A police signal (Police Wireless Message) from Imo State, southeast Nigeria, obtained by NewsOne Nigeria, reads: “PROMOTION GENERAL COMPOL directs as a matter of urgency, you forward to computer office, DFA, names of rank and file enlisted/promoted on or before December 2016 under the following heading: ‘S/NO, RANK, NAME, PRESENT DIVISION, DATE OF ENLISTMENT, DATE OF LAST PROMOTION’, pending disciplinary matters, remarks, falsification of date of promotion/ enlistment will be viewed seriously.

“Returns to reach computer office on or before 24/02/2020, eye repeat 24th February 2020.

“Also those omitted in the last promotion whose date of last promotion was 7/12/2015 should also include their names for proper documentation in hard and soft copies Microsoft excel.

“This is for detailed compilation and to avoid omission. Treat as very important please.”

Police Wireless Message (signal) obtained by NewsOne Nigeria.

Meanwhile, NewsOne Nigeria reports that the new Nigeria police promotion will be coming after some aggrieved officers of the force expressed bitterness over what they described as injustice and promotion of less qualified candidates in the last promotion under the former Inspector-General of Police.

Last year, the Police Service Commission suspended all pending police promotions in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) until further notice following the PSC’s dispute with the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, over the recruitment of 10,000 constables into the NPF.

In September 2019, TUC demanded that the PSC should withdraw all delegated powers extended to the IGP since it has been abused. The meeting in September 2019 rose with a Management decision to endorse the demand and stand of the Union that the Commission must seek judicial interpretation of its constitutional mandate for the appointment, which has been at the centre of the dispute.

The highlight of the decisions taken at the meeting reads as thus, “The meeting rose with a management decision to endorse the demand and stand of the union that the commission must seek judicial interpretation of its constitutional mandate for the appointment which has been at the centre of the dispute.