Dismissed Costabularies Expose Nigerian Government: We Beg For Money Because We Were Not Paid Salaries For Three Years
By Olayinka Awofadeju
The two special constables working with the Oyo State police command who were dismissed after being caught on camera demanding money from a female Dutch biker who was touring African countries have blamed the Nigerian government for their predicament.
However, in a viral video the two dismissed officers claimed that they had never received any salary or remuneration from the government despite serving for over three years.
They went on to say that it was because of this that they ended up begging and demanding money from motorists and using whatever they received to support themselves and their families.
One of them said, “I served for three years and three months. They did not give us any salary. They never gave us anything. Even after the dismissal, we were not paid at all. It is when we go to the roadside that we get money from what people give us. This is what we share and use to feed ourselves, our children and our wives.
“The punishment given to us was not commensurate with our offence. We were joking with the Dutch woman. We thought she was one of the foreigners brought by Ibrahim Chatta (an actor)."
“We cried because we were stripped naked before they collected our uniforms,” one of them added.
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