Buhari Stops Special Allowance For Aso Villa Guards. Find Out Why

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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the stoppage of special allowance for security personnel in the Presidential Villa even as he has refused to pay  them since his assumption of office. This is according to Premium wikis report.
Before now, all security personnel posted to the Villa were being paid what is known as Risk and Hazard Allowance.
 During the last regime, sources gathered that senior security officers covering the Villa were said to have been collecting between N75,000 and N50,000 while their junior ones received between N30,000 and N25,000 on a monthly basis.
It was gathered that the ADC to the President, Lt. Col. Muhammed Abubakar, summoned sectional heads of all the security agencies manning different positions within the Villa to inform them about the stoppage of the allowance following rumours making the rounds among the operatives that the money meant for the affected officers was being embezzled.

It was further gathered that the leaders of the affected security organs were told that the officers manning the Villa should be contented with their monthly salaries.
Besides, it was also gathered that the Chief Security Officer, Bashir Abubarkar, had written two letters to the National Security Adviser, Gen. Babagana Monguno(retd.) on the issue of the RCA, but was said to have been told that such allowance was illegal and that the President had asked that it be stopped.
Efforts made to get the reaction of the Presidency failed as calls made to the telephone number of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media, Mallam Garba Shehu, were not answered.

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