No police officer protested in Maiduguri over non-payment of allowance - Jimoh Moshood
- The spokesperson for the police force, Jimoh Moshood, says some police officers in Maiduguri made inquiry over the delay in the payment of their special duty allowance
- Moshood states that the police personnel were assured that since the budget has been approved, their allowances will be expeditiously processed and paid without any further delay
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has dismissed media reports that police personnel protested in Maiduguri as a result of non-payment of special duty allowance
The spokesperson for the force, Jimoh Moshood, in a statement on Monday, July 2, said contrary to the reports, some of the police mobile force personnel on special duty in Maiduguri went to the Borno state police command headquarters on enquiry over the delay in the payment of their special duty allowance in the early hours and not on protest as reported in some media.
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Moshood said the Inspector General of Police, (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, thereafter, ordered the commissioner of police, Borno state to address the officers and inform them why there is delay in the payment of their special duty allowance. He said the personnel subsequently returned to their duty posts after the briefing.
The statement read that the officers were also assured that since the budget has been approved, the allowances will be expeditiously processed and paid without any further delay.
Moshood said: "Consequently, the IGP has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Police Mobile Force (PMF) to proceed to Maiduguri, Borno State and other States in the North East where PMF personnel are deployed on special duty; to lecture and inform them on the efforts being made by the Force to ensure timely payment of special duty and other allowances to police personnel in the North East of the country.
"The Police Mobile Force personnel that went on the enquiry are not those attached to Operation Lafiya Dole in the fight against insurgency in the North East but those on the category of visiting Police Mobile Force units deployed in Maiduguri on Crime Prevention and other Police duties in the State.
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"Members of the Public in Maiduguri, Borno State are hereby enjoined not to panic but to go about their lawful duties and other responsibilities without fear or apprehension.
"The Nigeria Police Force is a disciplined organization and will not allow any situation to degenerate into disturbance of Public Peace anywhere in the Country."
Legit.ng had earlier reported that mobile police officers deployed to Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno state protested in the early hours of Monday, July 2, over their unpaid allowances.
This is coming few months after their colleagues in Aso Rock, Abuja protested over the same unpaid Risk Caution Allowances from May 2015 to 2017.
The Sun reports that the mobile policemen were deployed to Borno to boost the counter-insurgency operation in the state.
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Source: Legit.ng
