The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has warned aggrieved police officers that they lacked the right to protest or embark on the nationwide strike.

Some officer of the police are threatening to go on strike on March 26.

Mr Baba made the disclosure while delivering a lecture at the Force headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.

Addressing reports that junior ranking officers were planning to stage a protest at Eagles Square in Abuja on March 26 over unpaid emoluments, poor working conditions,  tax waiver among other reasons, Mr Baba stressed that the force was bound by discipline, hence officers would not resort to such drastic measures to drive home their demands.

“Since the police force is a regimental and disciplinary organisation. Its members cannot embark on strike, therefore all rumours concerning the strike should be disregarded,” partly reads the outcome of the IGP’s lecture.

In the same lecture, Mr Baba urged officers to pray for their new salaries to be paid at the end of the month.

Meanwhile, acting police spokesman Muyiwa Adejobi had earlier this week released a statement to debunk reports of the proposed industrial action. He warned that grave consequences would bedevil nigerians should police officers go on strike.

“The men and women of the Nigeria Police Force are fully aware that a strike action or other deliberate disruption of law enforcement services by any security organisation is mutinous and the personnel of the Force would not degenerate at any point to that level of disloyalty and indiscipline, as policing services are paramount and essential in the maintenance of orderliness and peace in the nation,” Mr Adejobi said in the statement.