DICON Kaduna debunks report of withholding staff promotion, welfare

The Management of the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) Kaduna has debunked allegations of withholding unit promotion and benefits.

Major Haruna Mohammed Sani, Deputy Director Information/Media, DICON Kaduna, successful a statement, said it was saddened by the unfounded and misleading allegations that DICON enactment directed the exclusion of definite DICON unit members from the 2024 promotion database owed to their information successful a unit protestation held successful April 2024.

“It is indispensable to authorities that DICON is simply a captious nationalist plus that operates successful accordance with the extant Public Service Regulations. The disciplinary and promotion processes wrong DICON are governed by a lasting Senior and Junior Staff Committees composed exclusively of civilians, with nary members representing the Armed Forces of Nigeria,” it said.

According to the statement, the relation of the DG and DICON absorption is often to o.k. the recommendations made by these committees based connected their nonsubjective assessments and considerations.

“Additionally, it is important to clarify that enrollment successful the Integrated Personnel Payroll System (IPPIS) falls nether the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, not DICON, arsenic the Federal Government of Nigeria operates some the IPPIS and GIFMIS systems for the outgo of civilian servants’ allowances crossed the full country.

“The existent DG did not invent these existing systems upon presumption of bureau but has ensured that allowances owed to DICON unit are paid,” the connection further added.

It said that immoderate incessant assertions that unit members person not been enrolled into the IPPIS bespeak a cardinal misunderstanding of the system’s operations and responsibilities.

Regarding the allegation that the DG introduced tribal sentiment, it is precise wide that these claims are wholly unfounded, adding that “currently, each the DG’s idiosyncratic unit and aides hail from assorted states crossed Nigeria, including Oyo, Kebbi, Kogi, and Plateau, with nary from Akwa Ibom State. The DG’s past 4 Military Assistants since 2021 person been from Borno, Kwara, Nassarawa, Niger, and presently Oyo State.”

“This divers practice indicates a committedness to competence, inclusivity, and fairness for which the DG DICON is wide known. Without prejudice to the esteemed nonrecreational officers from the DG’s location state.

“Such mischievous allegations further exposure the baseless and hopeless quality of the claims, which look intended to elicit sympathy portion obscuring the existent issues astatine hand,” it said.