Hundreds of retired police personnel on Monday staged a protest in Abuja and marched to the national assembly after defying the rain.
The Protestants, chanting solidarity songs and different comments, marched to the main entrance of the legislative chambers before heading for the Force Headquarters, expressed their grievances over their continued existence on the Contributory Pension Scheme.
The retired police officers claimed that they had been pushed to the wall with the government’s unresponsive attitude to their yearnings about what they tagged “discriminatory pension scheme”.
The elderly retired cops were backed by different activists, including a former Presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, and the human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, among many other activists.
The Chairman of Police Officers Retirees on Contributory Pension Scheme, Kaduna State branch, Mannir Lawal, while speaking to journalists during the protest, described the scheme as “exploitative and unjust”.
Lawal, a retired Chief Superintendent of Police, called on the government to exit police retirees from the pension scheme with immediate effect.
He said, “We are here to ask the government to remove us from the CPS. The pension scheme is exploitative and unjust. I am 67 years old. Many of us here are in our 60s and 70s.
“We have served this country faithfully and deserve to retire in dignity. This scheme has impoverished us. It is our right to demand better,” the senior retired police officers told journalists”.
Security operatives drawn from the Federal Capital Territory Command were seen monitoring the protest and controlling the crowd to prevent any possible breakdown of law and order.
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