Fresh crisis appears to be rocking the seat of Power as 180 aggrieved policemen serving at the Presidential Villa have protested over their unpaid Risk Caution Allowances since 2015, when they were posted to the Presidency. The affected Policemen made their grievances known in a petition addressed to the President, Muhammadu Buhari. The petition which was obtained by Vigil360 was titled “President Muhammadu Buhari’s mobile policemen plead over unpaid Risk Caution Allowances from May 2015 to date”
The petition reads in part;
“About 127 police officers attached to the Presidency have not been paid the balance of their risk caution allowances and about 53 mobile police officers that started working with the present government since 2015 have not been paid anything. The 53 policemen since the past two years have been languishing in poverty. Most of these policemen did the data capture and were given the presidential tags.
Those behind this delay are some of the superior officers like the Squadron, the Principal Staff Officer and the leader of the Presidential Vehicle Movement. The excuse given by the superior officers was that the affected policemen were boys to the former Squadron leader, one SP Mau’su.
“These superiors have started transferring these affected policemen out of the Villa to some states and replacing them with their own boys, who did not suffer and were not there to bear what the policemen went through. We are pleading with our father and President, Muhammadu Buhari, to look into these sufferings from the beginning of his government till date.”
Meanwhile, a source in the Villa disclosed to Vigil360 that the Chief Security Officer has been directed to investigate the development and report back this week.
