For Over three years of unpaid stipends, ex-agitators barricaded Ayade’s office.

Former Bakassi Strike Force, BSF, personnel, numbering around 150, blocked the entrance to Governor Ben Ayade’s Office in the early hours of Tuesday, in protest of unpaid allowances and the government’s inability to execute the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, it signed with them in 2018.

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According to the Vanguard, it took the intervention of some of the group’s leaders to persuade their followers not to tear down the gate of the Governor’s office.

The ex-agitators, mostly dressed in black, stormed the Governor’s Office unannounced at 8 a.m. and blocked the road, refusing vehicles to pass near the area.

Despite the presence of Policemen stationed at both gates and the road leading to the Governor’s Office, the ex-agitators led by one “Timaya” created disruptions.

According to Timaya, their leader, they were protesting the non-payment of their money, which was meant to have been paid since December 2018 but had not been paid as of yet.

“We are not going anywhere until the governor settles us,” the ex-militants chorused as the Permanent Secretary in Governor’s Office on Special Service ( Security), Dr. Alfred Mboto pleaded with them to allow the government time to sort out their grievances.

Mboto became enraged and departed, only for some of the militants to beat many bystanders at the gate before some of the ex-militants intervened and pleaded with their more noisy comrades to “stay action.”

Meanwhile, Mboto informed the protesting ex-agitators that Governor Ben Ayade was looking into their situation and would organize a meeting with their leaders.