The Spokesperson of Nigerian Police force, (NPF), Frank Mba has explained why Police Officers deployed to Anambra Election has not received their Allowances yet.
Some of The Police Mens deployed to Anambra to monitor the Governorship Election where earlier protesting due to unpaid allowances.
Mba said Critical issues or Typography mistakes may be the cause of the unpaid allowances.
Mba while speaking at the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) situation room, on Saturday in Abuja said over seventhy percent of the Officers has been paid.
“For the first time, we paid the money of personnel even before the commencement of the election,” he said.
“We deployed about 34,000 officers and as at noon on Friday, over 29,000 of them had received their money. I did not check today. And I’m sure a lot more would have received their money today.
“But we understand that there are some who have not received their money. This could be as a result of clerical mistakes in forwarding their details; it could be typographical mistakes.
“It could be any other type of mistake in communication, because the way these allowances are worked out is that the contributing commands are supposed to send these details from their respective squadrons if they are members of the police mobile forces or from their respective commands. Apart from that, it has to move from the office of the DPO to the CP’s office and then down to us.”
“We are already working on that to find out why these few numbers have not received their money. But the reassuring message here is that we’ve got the money. There is no complaint about the availability of the funds. We’ve got these allowances and it is warehoused in the police account and not with the CBN,” he said.
“The inspector-general of police has already given directive this afternoon that the field commanders and the strategic managers on ground should compile the names of persons who have not gotten their allowances and get all the necessary details correctly.
“The issue of welfare is very dear to us and this time around, the money being paid to them is an improved version to what was being paid before. Before, they don’t get paid feeding allowance. They just pay you your allowance and it is assumed that your allowance would take care of your feeding and accommodation. But this time around, a separate feeding allowance is actually worked out and added.
“These monies are being paid into their account and not over the table so nobody can pilfer with anybody’s money.”
