Business came to stand still on Friday morning for three hours as a crowd gathered to watch a police officer climbing a telephone tower in a protest to lack of payment.
Solomon Korok was armed with AK-47 and dressed in full police uniform climbed up Gemtel tower to express disappointment on none salary payment for one year, Emmanuel Radio reported.
Friends, security personnel and relatives including Korok’s mother negotiated with him on the phone to climb down from the tower.
Mr Korok told the negotiators that he did not intend to harm anybody but only wanted to show police authority that his money was to be paid.
State Public Administration and Internal Affairs minister Claudio Suleiman Liling said Korok’s issues started when he requested for a leave to study in Khartoum.
He explained that when Korok returned from Khartoum found his name deleted from the payroll and demoted from sergeant to private.
Minister Liling said his office and the police Commission will administratively handle Korok’s concerns.