Over 1,000 officers recruited into the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in 2010 have called on President Bola Tinubu, Senate President, Godswill Apkabio, Speaker, House of Representative, Abbas Tajudeen, to intervene on the delayed promotion, which they described as ‘career stagnancy and abandonment.’
The corps, who were enlisted into NSCDC, with Bachelor of Science (Bsc) degrees, since 2010, as one star officers (Assistant Superintendent II), decried that they have been denied promotions for the past 13 years.
The corps, who referred to themselves as 2010 peculiar group, spoke with The Guardian from various NSCDC Commands across the country, lamenting that stagnation in their promotion has dampened morale.
The group said the most humiliating aspect is that their juniors, enlisted in 2012, have been promoted to Deputy Superintendent of Corps (DSC) and Superintendent of Corps (SC), while most of them are still ASC 1 till date.
According to them, the major defense the Commandant General of NSCDC always came up with was non-availability of vacancies for promotion. They, therefore, wondered how juniors could then be promoted ahead of their seniors, indicating that something is wrong somewhere.
The group, therefore, pleaded with the Federal Government to intervene and ensure the right thing is done.
The group noted that despite several appeals made to former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbsola, whose ministry is in-charge of paramilitary agencies, to correct this anomaly, nothing has been done.
The corps maintained that they are only asking to be placed on their proper ranks as SC level 11, and promoted as and when due on merit and batch basis.
They, therefore, called on relevant authorities to call NSCDC, the board of Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDIFB) to order over the unprofessional act against the public service rule, which provides that a senior is not supposed to be on a particular rank for more than three years, which, according to them, has defeated the beauty of regimentation since a junior cannot give orders to his senior or receive compliments from him.
