Mobile Police (MOPOL) officers deployed for peacekeeping operations in Plateau State have alleged that they have gone seven consecutive months without receiving their promised monthly allowances, accusing senior officials of diverting funds that the state government says have already been released.

According to the affected officers, security personnel drawn from various agencies were deployed to Plateau, Benue and other states to help contain rising insecurity in the region. One officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of victimisation, said he and his colleagues were deployed from Kano State to communities in Jos South, Barkin Ladi, Bokkos and other Local Government Areas in December 2025. Upon arrival, he said, the group was taken to Government House in Jos, where they were personally promised a monthly allowance of ₦150,000 each by the Plateau State Government.

That promise, according to the officers, was honoured only once. They received payment for December 2025, but say they have not been paid from January through July 2026, despite learning that the state government continues to release the funds on a monthly basis. The officers allege that the money is being intercepted somewhere along the chain of disbursement before it reaches them, describing the situation as a clear violation of their legal entitlements.

Beyond the financial frustration, the officers painted a picture of an already difficult deployment made harder by the unpaid allowances. They explained that the nature of their assignment often requires travelling long distances simply to purchase food, at costs they describe as prohibitively expensive relative to their base salaries. Having reportedly explored multiple internal channels to raise the issue without resolution, the affected personnel are now appealing directly to the Inspector-General of Police and other relevant authorities to investigate the matter and ensure their outstanding entitlements are paid.

The response from police authorities has so far offered limited clarity on where responsibility lies. The spokesperson for the Plateau State Police Command, SP Alabo Alfred, did not respond to repeated calls and text messages seeking comment on the allegations. However, Force Public Relations Officer Anietie Iniedu, a Chief Superintendent of Police, told journalists that the Nigeria Police Force is not directly responsible for administering allowances for officers deployed under the Joint Task Force of Operation Safe Haven, the multi-agency security framework coordinating the peacekeeping effort in the affected states. Iniedu urged aggrieved officers to exhaust internal grievance mechanisms rather than airing the matter publicly, cautioning that doing so risked demoralising personnel currently serving in high-risk environments.

The dispute highlights a structural ambiguity that has periodically surfaced in Nigeria's multi-agency security deployments, where personnel drawn from different commands and states operate under joint task force arrangements whose allowance structures do not always fall clearly under any single chain of command or accountability. For the officers currently serving in Plateau's conflict-affected communities, that ambiguity has translated into months of unpaid entitlements and growing uncertainty over who, precisely, is responsible for resolving it β€” even as they continue carrying out demanding security duties in some of the state's most volatile local government areas.