By Ishaya Ibrahim
Police officers on special duty in Borno State are currently protesting in Maiduguri, the state capital.
The officers, deployed from across the country to help fight insurgency in the state, took over some streets on Monday morning, in protest of the non-payment of their allowances.
It was gathered that they are owed between six and eight months of allowances.
Eyewitnesses in the beleaguered city told TheNiche the embittered officers, who barricaded a major highway in the city, shot sporadically into the air, burning tyres, and spraying teargas, thus causing commotion in the area.
The development also led to the disruption of vehicular movements in the area as most commuters avoided the highway.
The aggrieved officers have reportedly not been paid any of their allowances since they were deployed to Borno in January.
They were seen armed and matching towards the command headquarters to report their grievances.
Some of them who spoke to reporters complained of the “inhuman” treatment they have been subjected to since their deployment.
Borno State Commissioner of Police, Damian Chukwu, was reported to have called for calm, blaming the non-payment of the allowances on late passage of the Federal budget by the National Assembly..