Installment of Biafra policemen will end common war torments – Nigerian government

The Federal Government of Nigeria has expressed that the installment of annuity advantages to resigned Biafran cops would end the excruciating inheritances of the Nigerian Civil War.

NAIJAEXPOSEMILL reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had endorsed the installment of benefits to police staff who served under the old Biafran police amid the common war.

The influenced cop were a piece of the Nigerian Police Force before the episode of the war however ended up on the Biafran side when the war initiated between 1967 – 1970.

Official Secretary, PTAD, Mrs Sharon Ikeazor, on Friday declared that 162 officers who have never been on the finance, and 57 Next of Kin who have not been paid their demise benefits, would be paid on Friday, in the principal clump of the activity.

Another set, involving around 155 resigned Biafran cops, who are on the finance yet were as a rule 'short paid', would be paid in the following group when their annuity advantage calculation is closed, Ikeazor included.

The PTAD manager clarified that the installment of the annuity benefits was a piece of measures taken by the Federal Government to mend the injuries of the Civil War.

"This speaks to another choice by the present Federal Government to convey conclusion to the agonizing inheritances of the Civil War, and without a doubt an unmistakable showing that President Muhammadu Buhari is undoubtedly a father to all Nigerians and that his organization's changes under PTAD will guarantee that Nigerians who spent the gainful years of their lives serving their country won't encounter challenges in getting their benefits," Ikeazor said.

Administrator of the Association of Retired War Affected Police Officers, the union of the resigned Biafran police staff, Mr. Matthew Udeh, clarified that the installment of their annuity benefits came after a long stretch of fomentation.

Addressing writers, he stated, "I was a cop of the rank of ASP before the war finished. We have served in Biafra amid the war. After the war, some policemen and troopers who served in Biafra amid the war were expelled. We felt that was unjustifiable in light of the fact that other government employees who served in Biafra amid the war were reabsorbed. Along these lines, from 1970, we began fomenting for equity.

"We disturbed through every one of the heads of express that assumed control after the war, until the second happening to Olusegun Obasanjo as a non military personnel president. On May 29, 2000, he allowed us acquittal by formally resigning us."