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Over 1,000 people were recruited into the force as constabularies during the 2021/2022 exercise but were not paid for six months.

The Police Service Commission (PSC) says it has approved the payment of six months’ salaries for the police constables recruited last year.   SaharaReporters had exclusively reported how the recruits who passed out of the police training institutions on December 29, 2022, had not been paid for months despite resuming at their duty posts across the country.   One of the affected officers who spoke to the newspaper said that the situation had demoralised many of them as they were finding it difficult to meet their responsibilities to their families.

"the Commission's decision was reached in the interest of national security anchored on the need to

Thousands of constables who were recently recruited into the Nigeria Police Force have not been paid salaries for the past four months. The recruits passed out of the police training institutions on December 29, 2020, and have not been paid since then despite resuming at their duty posts across the country. Speaking to SaharaReporters, one of the affected officers said that the situation had demoralised many of them as they were finding it difficult to meet their responsibilities to their families.

He said, “The Federal Government has not met our demands. The N320.3 billion is not part of our demands. This is what we fought for in 1994. It is not Federal Government’s funding. It is funded by the public sectors, by taxpayers.