Policemen Protest In Maiduguri, Barricades Road
Mobile policemen on Monday in Maiduguri staged a protest over non-payment of their allowances.
The protesting policemen barricaded the command’s 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.
“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.