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| Nigerian President, Muhammed Buhari |
The bodyguards of President Muhammadu Buhari, who participated during
the campaigns, have lamented that they have been pushed to the corner in which
they are not employed into any job or given any appointment.
The body guards claimed that President Buhari has abandoned them after
he emerged the 2015 General election
According to them, apart from the N20, 000 they got on two occasions in
January and February 2015, “we had never and were never given anything.”
Speaking at a press briefing addressed by their spokesperson, Olabiyi
Balogun, and three other members, Audu Odemeho, Abdullahi Hassan and Zubairu
Idris, the group lamented that those who did not even work for the victory of
Buhari were now reaping from where they did not sow.
Balogun said, “Right now, we need Mr. President to appreciate our hard
work for him. We need Mr. President to recognise the fact that we have lost
everything because we championed the change agenda.
“Definitely, it is not just our exclusion that is a security threat to
the country. Anything that will deny any man his dues and legitimate rights can
be concluded to mean a security threat because when you don’t get your dues and
what is rightly due for you, then you are opened to a lot of temptations. So, we
are indeed a security threat.”
Members of the Presidential Bodyguards, put at over 100 personnel, were
said to have been drawn from the security and protocol departments and the
Buhari Support Organisation.
“During the electioneering campaign, we served the current President,
Muhammadu Buhari, as his personal bodyguards. That was who we were and that is
what we are till now.
“One would have expected that having worked hard tirelessly and
relentlessly for the President to assume the office he had desired all these
years, the people that were in the forefront deserved to be recognised,
compensated and remunerated, considering the volume of work and gravity of the
sacrifices we had to make,” he added.
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