The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the review and upgrade of salaries of police personnel by 20 per cent.
The Nigerian Police Personnel salary has been upgraded by 20 percent which is expected to take effect from January 2022.
This is according to the Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, who said this on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting which was presided by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Dingyadi said that the salary upgrade is taken into consideration in a bid to yeild to the demands made by EndSARS protesters in 2020.
He added that the take home pay will be enhanced through the duty tour allowance to 6 per cent of their new take home pay and an approval of N1.12 billion for payment of outstanding uninsured benefits for the period of 2013 to 2020.
President Buhari had promised that the salaries will be upgraded commensurate to service rendered to further maintain peace in the country.
FEC also approved the release of N13.1 billion for payment of outstanding death benefits of 5,472 personnel for the uninsured period of 2013 to August 2021.
In addition, the council approved a tax waiver in the sum of N18.6 billion for junior officers of the police to increase the take home pay effective from October 2021.
The five demands of the #EndSARS protesters have now been attended to as Nigerians keeps calling that the the Federal Goverment honour all the demands.
The five demands are
Immediate release of all arrested protesters.
Justice for all deceased victims of police brutality and appropriate compensation for their families.
Setting up an independent body to oversee the investigation and prosecution of all reports of Police misconduct (within 10days).
In line with police act, psychological evaluation and retaining (to be confirmed by an independent body) of all disbanded SARS officers before they can be redeployed.
Increase Police salary so that they are adequately compensated for protecting lives and property of citizens .