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Police Denies Protest in Maiduguri

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has denied media reports that Mobile Police Personnel (MPF) deployed to Maiduguri, Borno state, protested over nonpayment of Special Duty Allowance.

“Police Officers and men in the State are on their duty posts ensuring public peace and law and order,” a statement by Police spokesman DCP Jimoh Moshood said on Monday.

According to reports, the protesting policemen barricaded the Police Command Headquarters along Maiduguri-Kano highway, and disrupted traffic on the road.

It was learnt that about 10, 000 mobile policemen deployed to the state have not received their allowances in the past six months.

However, Moshood’s statement said the attention of the Police has been drawn to media reports that Policemen protested in Maiduguri over non-payment of their Special Duty Allowance.

He said, “The Force wish to categorically state that it is not correct that police personnel protested in Maiduguri today, 2nd July, 2018.”

He explained that, “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 of today and not on protest as reported in some media.”

He said (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, directed the Commissioner of Police (CP), Borno State to address and inform them why there is delay in the payment of their special duty allowance.

He said the CP also assured them that since the budget has been approved, the allowances will be processed and paid without any further delay.

Moshood explained that, the Police men subsequently returned to their duty posts.

He 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.

The PMF CP is to lecture and inform the policemen 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.

Moshood said 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.

He said they belong 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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