95 Presidential Body Guards In Aso Rock Complain's Over Unpaid Allowance

Security agents joined to the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, including 95 presidential body watchmen, are protesting over non-installment of their 13-month unique stipend.

They are officers of the Nigerian Army, the Department of Security Service (DSS), the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the Federal Fire Service and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).

Since President Muhammadu Buhari expected office on May 29, 2015, the State House security staff, numbering around 1,400 say they have not got their extraordinary stipend also called Risk Cautious Allowance (RCA).

The organization of previous President Goodluck Jonathan was said to pay each of the senior security work force at the Villa N30,000; and the lesser ones, N25,000 as month to month unique stipend.

Discoveries, in any case, uncovered that despite the fact that Jonathan's organization had investigated the extraordinary stipend upward, the last time the Villa security staff got it was in March, 2015.

Be that as it may, the officers as of now securing the country's seat of force said it beat their creative energy that they could be owed their RCA under the organization of President Buhari, a resigned general.

The security staff, who ached for obscurity, regretted that a while after President Muhammadu Buhari had requested the installment of the recompense, "nothing has been finished."

One of them, a policeman, told our journalist that he was astounded at the non-installment of the extraordinary remittance "particularly in light of the fact that the president is from a security foundation.

The Presidency clarified that "perfect and legitimate" method for paying the uncommon remittance was being formulated, as coordinated by President Buhari.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, told our journalist that on presumption of office, Buhari's organization found that the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) was paying the uncommon stipend without taking after due procedure.

Shehu said: "Under the Muhammadu Buhari organization, you are not going to have the NSA setting off to the Central Bank or the NNPC to bring cash to share around. That is not going to happen."

He said the president had, to that degree, coordinated the officeholder NSA, General Babagana Munguno, "to devise perfect and legal method for paying those stipends as a major aspect of the general push to tidy up that office."


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