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N50,000 For Police Officers On Election Is Duty Tour Allowance

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The Nigerian police has said that the N50,000 paid to men and officers taking part in the governorship election on Saturday, September 22 represents duty tour allowance for ten days in line with the Financial Regulations and Public Service Rules.

Reacting to a newspaper report today, Wednesday that federal government had paid to constables N50,000.00 each for election duty, others more allowance more than N45000 monthly salary, the police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood said that the payment of allowance to officers and men of the Nigeria Force and that of other Security and Safety Agencies complementing the Nigeria Police Force in election security in Osun State is statutory and transparent in line with the Financial Regulations and Public Service Rules as it has to do with Duty Tour Allowance.

“To further disabuse the minds of members of the public who must have read the report and to correct the mischief by the writers of the story, the following is the breakdown of the Duty Tour Allowance (DTA) entitlements paid to Police Officers and Men deployed for election duty in Osun State and other previous Gubernatorial elections held in Edo, Ondo, Anambra and Ekiti States.

i. Ranks and File (Constable to Sergeant) – N5,000 DTA per Day X 10 Days = N50,000

ii. Inspector to Chief Superintendent of Police – N12,000 DTA per Day X 10 Days = N120,000

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iii. Assistant Commissioner of Police – Assistant Inspector General of Police – N16,000 DTA per Day X 10 Days = N160,000

iv.   Deputy Inspector General of Police – N20,000 DTA per Day X 10 Days = N200,000.”

Moshood described the newspaper report therefore as absolutely misleading and an outright misinformation “which is figments of imagination of the two (2) writers. The Federal Government did not pay constables N50,000 each for election duty, others more as claimed in the report.”

He said that either due to outright ignorance or deliberate mischief, the writers rushed to the press for purposes best known to them without a thorough check of what the Public Service Rules and Financial Regulations provide for every police personnel deployed for special duty, Election Duty and other ad-hoc duties as Duty Tour Allowance (DTA).

“The Force will continue to hold the media in a very high regard and as veritable partner in ensuring the protection of lives and property of all Nigerians, however, the Nigeria Police Force implores them not to allow the pages of their esteemed Newspapers to be used to publish unverified, misleading, mischievous and beer palour gossip.

“Members of the public are hereby enjoined to disregard, discountenance the story as untrue, misleading and misinformation.”

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