The Nigerian Police has reacted to reports that some mobile policemen this morning, disrupted movement in Maiduguri as they went on a protest about their six months unpaid allowances.
The Nigerian Police Force has reacted to reports that there was a protest by some personnel of the Police in Maiduguri, Borno state on Monday.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Ag. DCP Jimoh Moshood cleared the air that "No Policeman protested in Borno or anywhere in the country."
Moshood refuted the reports on NTA News 24 at 10:00am on Monday.
“Salary is being paid as at when due but some PMF personnel in Maiduguri only went to make enquiry on their allowances,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Police Force has taken to its verified Facebook page to release a statement on the reported protest by its officials earlier today.
Read it in full below;
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RE- POLICE OFFICERS PROTEST IN MAIDUGURI
·No Police Personnel Protested in Maiduguri as a Result of Non-payment of Special Duty Allowance
·Police Officers and men in the State are on their duty posts ensuring public peace and law and order in the State
The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to media report that Policemen protested in Maiduguri over non-payment of their Special Duty Allowance.
2. The Force wish to categorically state that it is not correct that police personnel protested in Maiduguri today, 2nd July, 2018. 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.
3. The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris, NPM, mni promptly directed the Commissioner of Police, Borno State to address and inform them why there is delay in the payment of their special duty allowance, and also assure them that since the budget has been approved, the allowances will be expeditiously processed and paid without any further delay. They subsequently returned to their duty posts.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
Ag. DCP JIMOH O. MOSHOOD
Force Public Relations Officers
Force Headquarters
Abuja.
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