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The attention of the Federal Government were drawn to the concerns raised on the welfare of security agencies, particularly the police, deployed across the country to enforce the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The issues of allowance and provision of Personal Protective Equipment, PPE for the personnel were among the worries expressed by the security agencies, which according to them had been neglected by the government.
But on Monday, at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force, PTF on COVID-19, the National Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu said the allowance for the security operatives were being processed, adding that as soon as paper work is completed they will proceed to begin the payment.
“We are currently processing this. We have been awaiting paper work; the paper work needs to be completed before we go ahead to pay,” Aliyu said.
On the issue of providing PPE, he said the security agencies were expected to make procurement from their budget.
“As regards the PPE, we distributed some PPE to frontline non-health workers last week, but a lot of agencies that deal with security do have budget lines for the PPE and we expect them to procure the PPE using their budget,” the PTF national coordinator stated.
