Police officers deployed for today’s governorship election in Anambra State have protested the alleged non-payment of their feeding allowance.
A trending video has revealed where Police operatives assigned for Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Anambra state are protesting over the inability of the authorities to pay them approved N10, 000 feeding allowance.
The officers were seen demanding that the N10,000 be paid to them without further delay.
It was learnt that the officers, many of whom arrived Anambra during the week, were not given accommodation.
According to the video, the officers gathered at Idemili Ogidi Police Division, chanting “pay us our money.”
“Here are policemen protesting over non-payment of Election feeding allowance. 10,000 naira is the amount for feeding. Meanwhile, over three days now, no accommodation and no food to eat. Many of the junior ranks are stranded in Idemili Ogidi Division where they received 1,500 police personnel from Lagos State,” an affected senior police officer told our correspondent.
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The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, did not answer calls to his phone number, neither did he reply a message seeking his reaction to the incident.
Recall that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, had deployed over 34,000 policemen to Anambra for the governorship elections.
Voters in the Anambra governorship election are still afraid to step out of their houses, despite assurances of safety by the state governor, Willie Obiano, the Police Commissioner, Echeng Echeng and relaxation of sit-at-home order by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB).
IPOB had on Thursday, suspended the earlier announced sit-at-home order billed to commence on November 5 in the south east. In a statement by its Director of Publicity, Emma Powerful, IPOB said that it has to suspend the order following the appeal by the elders in the south east coupled with the grave economic implications of the action on the people.
