Police Service Commission Debunks News About Sack Of Police Officers

The Police Service Commission said its attention has been drawn to a publication in the Punch newspaper of Saturday October 31, 2020, reporting that the Police Service Commission will dismiss Police officers who fail to return to work.

Clearing the air, Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations, said, “The Police Service Commission wishes to state that it did not any time say Police men who refused to get back to work will be dismissed”.

“The Commission had condemned the killing of Police officers on legitimate duties and had warned that any attempt to make the country lawless will be an ill wind that will blow nobody any good.”

“The Commission can only plead with the officers to, in the spirit of nationalism, return to work while Government works out enough protective programmes for themThe Commission will continue to do its best to ensure the police are motivated to do its job.The Commission, being the employers of the Police, is pained that Police men were killed and stations set ablaze throughout the country.”

“It will be very insensitive at this point for anyone to say that the Commission will dismiss any Police man who did not return to work.
The Commission is even at present mourning the deaths of it’s gallant officers who were killed in the crisis” the statement concluded.