The National Union of the Police Retirees, Kaduna State Branch says it is warming up for a mother of all protests to remind the National Assembly and subsequently, President Bola Tinubu to sign the pension exit bills.
The bill to exit the Nigeria Police from Contributory Pension Scheme and the bill for the establishment of the Nigeria Police Pension Board, as the police retirees are patiently waiting for fruition, but there is the tendency that, the promise by the National Assembly or the Bill to be assented to by the President may not be fulfilled, as September is winding up.
The uncertainty is contained in a press release signed by the Chairman of the Police Retirees Kaduna State Chapter, CSP Mannir Lawal Zaria rtd and the Vice Chairman, ASP Danlami Maigamo rtd and made available to journalists in Kaduna.
CSP Mannir Lawal Zaria Rtd lamented that the police retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme are dying immensely due to poverty and hunger.
“The union is also pleading that, as the death toll is on the increase among the police retirees under the contributory Pension Scheme and the prices of commodity of any type are also on the increase” He said.
“Federal Government should come to the aid of the police retirees under the contributory Pension Scheme before they all perished by immediately paying the following allowances to the police retirees under the contributory Pension Scheme”.
” Two point five percent differential, the Federal Government Palliative and three consecutive pension increase by the Federal Government as well as the minimum wage increase”.
“During the Police Retirees Kaduna State Branch monthly meeting held last Wednesday at Police Officers Mess Kaduna, members became shocked and worried, as there is a sign of unfulfillment of a promise that begin to manifest its self and can be recalled that, on the 22/09/24″.
The National Union of the Police Retirees under the contributory Pension Scheme carried out a nationwide peaceful protest to the National Assembly Abuja”.
“During the protest, the Chairman Senate Committee for Police Affairs, Senator Ahmed Abdulkadir Malamadori, addressed some of the retirees in his office, where he promised the retirees that, before September 24, they would be exited from the Contributory Pension Scheme to the Define Benefit Scheme (DBS). that the two Police Bills would be Harmonized”.
“Sequel to this sign of un fulfilment, the blood pressure of many concerned police retirees has risen above maximum”
“Therefore, the Kaduna Branch has unanimously agreed that, if by the end of this September, the Nigeria Police is not exempted from contributory Pension Scheme it would embark on protest”.