The Calabar port has been underutilised for years due to shallow waters and controversies surrounding the dredging of the channel but the NPA’s Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman said the current exercise will be completed.

The Nigerian Ports Authority has commenced arrangements to facilitate the dredging of Calabar Port in Cross River. Responding to the allegations, the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Jimoh Moshood said all allowances and salaries of policemen attached to any place were being paid regularly, adding that no complaints from any of the security detachment to the President had been received by the police. A government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said police authorities should be blamed for the non-payment of the RCA. The site said that in addition to the 53 persons affected, a further 127 others say they had yet to be paid their allowances in full.

This was disclosed in an anonymous petition that the policemen sent to President Muhammadu Buhari, according to online news site, Sahara Reporters. No fewer than 53 policemen serving in the Presidential Villa say they have yet to be paid their Risk Caution Allowances since 2015, when they were posted to the Presidency.

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