Mobile policemen on Monday in Maiduguri staged a protest over non-payment of their allowances.
The
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protesting policemen
barricaded the command headquarters located on Maiduguri-Kano
expressway.
The protest disrupted traffic on the road.
One
of protesting policemen who pleaded anonymity, said they were angry
over non-payment of their allowances in the last six months.
“About
10, 000 mobile policemen were deployed to the state from different
commands but we have not received our allowances in the past six months.
“We
have been serving at the command headquarters since our deployment; but
some of us deployed to other locations outside the headquarters were
being paid their allowances as and when due.
“We
have been facing hardships as a result of the non-payment of the
allowances. We have made several complaints but nobody listened to us,”
the aggrieved policeman said.
The
Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Damian Chukwu, blamed the non
payment on the delay in the passage of the 2018 budget.
He called on the protesting policemen to calm down and assured them that their allowances would be paid.
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