Alleged Police protest in Maiduguri
The police authorities have refuted stories that riot policemen protested over the delay within the cost of their particular obligation allowance in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Monday.
In a assertion in Abuja, the Force Spokesman, performing DCP Jimoh Moshood, stated that the policemen merely visited the Borno State Police Command headquarters on enquiry over the delay of their allowance.
However, the police declare is opposite to footage circulating on-line displaying the lads holding leaves and firing their weapons within the air.
Moshood defined that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has directed the Commissioner of Police, Borno State to tell the lads why there was delay within the cost of their allowance and in addition guarantee them that “since the budget has been approved, the allowances will be expeditiously processed and paid without any further delay.”
He stated, “Consequently, the IGP has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Police Mobile Force 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 spokesman additional defined that the “PMF that went on enquiry” weren't hooked up to ‘Operation Lafiya Dole’ combating towards insurgency within the North East.
He also stated that the policemen had been a unit of visiting riot cops deployed in Maiduguri on crime prevention and different police duties within the state.
“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,” the power assured.