The National Coordinator of the PTF, Dr Sani Aliyu, has said the allowance for security personnel deployed to enforce the COVID-19 lockdown was under review.
He revealed this at the PTF press briefing on Monday
The security agencies, especially the police, had accused the Federal Government of neglecting their welfare and not providing them with personnel protective equipment on the “delicate” assignment.
In response to a question relating to the accusation, Aliyu said, “We are currently processing this. We have been awaiting paperwork; the paperwork needs to be completed before we go ahead to pay.”
He, however, stated that the PTF is not responsible for the provision of PPE.
“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,” he said.
