Has Buhari stopped paying ‘special allowance’ to Presidential Villa security?

President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly ordered that security personnel working in the Presidential Villa, should stop receiving special allowance.
The special allowance being paid to all security personnel posted to the Villa is known as Risk and Hazard Allowance.

Punch reports that during the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, senior security officers on the beat of the Villa were paid N50,000-N75,000 while the junior officers received between N30,000 and N25,000 per month.
However, since his inauguration as Nigeria’s President, Buhari has reportedly refused to continue paying the special allowance.
The report stated that the ADC to the President, Lt. Col. Muhammed Abubakar, had recently informed sectional heads of all the security agencies within the Villa about the stoppage of the allowance.
Punch quoted one of the affected officers, as saying: “About two weeks ago, an assistant superintendent of one of the agencies called us and told us that the ADC met all the heads of the security agencies in the Villa where the news was broken to them.
“Our own head also met us and warned us to desist from carrying rumours about the money. He said that the ADC told them that no money was being released to the guards, as being speculated.”