Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress’s (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, and other activists have vowed to hold a protest in Abuja today to call for better treatment for Nigeria Police Force employees.
Similarly, members of the Nigerian Union of Retired Police Officers will protest the Force Headquarters and the National Assembly building, calling for their expulsion from the contributory pension plan, which they said was a “discriminatory pension plan.”
The retired officers claimed that they have been pushed to the wall with the government’s unresponsive attitude to their complains about what they tagged “discriminatory pension scheme.”
In a telephone interview with news correspondents on Sunday, the Union’s Chairman, Mannir M. Lawal, stated that members from across the 36 states are presently in Abuja for the “mother of all peaceful protests.”
“Nothing is going to stop the protest. We have just met with the FCT Commissioner of Police. We have informed him of our intention.
“We just want to be removed from the Contributory Pension Scheme. We want all our savings to be refunded to us with immediate effect,” he said.
Contrary to reports that Sowore and other activists orchestrated the protest to tarnish the image of the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Lawal told correspondents that the union solely planned the exercise.
He said, “We only saw Sowore’s own on social media. We are not aware of his planned protest before today.”
Following this, the NPF responded stating that sensitive police welfare is being politicised, colleagues for ulterior motives – Police
According to the Nigeria Police Force, some players in the nation have chosen to politicise a delicate welfare issue involving current and former police officers, “weaponising the legitimate grievances of our retired colleagues for ulterior motives.” The force expressed its regret on Sunday.
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