The Police Service Commission (PSC), on Saturday, denied that it threatened to dismiss police officers who have abandoned their respective duty posts for the past few days.
Ikechukwu Ani, the spokesperson of the commission, in a Whatsapp message sent to our correspondent, explained that PSC “can only plead with the officers to, in the spirit of nationalism, return to work while government works out enough protective programmes for them.”
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Ani reiterated that 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 illwind that will blow nobody any good.
“The Police Service Commission wishes to state that it did not at any time say Police men who refused to get back to work will be dismissed,” the commission’s spokesperson said.
He added: “The Commission will continue to do its best to ensure the police are motivated to do their 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 didn’t return to work.
“The Commission is even at present mourning the deaths of its gallant officers who were killed in the crisis.”
