FG Promoted 32,000 NSCDC, Immigration, Corrections Officers In One Year
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says the ministry is committed to the promotion of workers, declaring that it will now become an annual ritual.
The minister, on Thursday, stated that the ministry carried out a promotion exercise last year where nobody needed to pay money to get promoted.
He said the ministry has promoted over 32, 000 officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Nigeria Fire Service, and the Nigerian Correctional Service, Nigeria Immigration Service, and other workers in the interior ministry.
Tunji-Ojo said that non-promotion of workers who were due for promotion bred corruption in the system, with many paying money to be able to gain promotion.
He said, “When we came on board, we realised that we used to have this national promotion, like people being promoted maybe in 2024, and it takes effect from 2023. So, when we looked at the record since the board’s inception, responsible for promotion, recruitment, and discipline, which was in 1986, never had we had a promotion exercise for that particular year completed within that year.
“And last year I tell you for the first time we broke that jinx, to the glory of God, people were promoted. And not just that people were promoted, I tell you that so many people, when we came on board, were on the same grade, they were stagnated in their careers, for like six, seven, some eight, some even nine years, but last year, we cleared the backlog of promotion, and in one day about 32,000 officers were promoted across all our agencies.”
