Retired Police Officers Protested In Edo, Wants FG To Exit Them From Scheme














Retired Police Officers Protested In Edo, Wants FG To Exit Them From Scheme 

Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin 

Leaders and members of the National Association of Retired Officers, under Contributory Pension Scheme has protested that they should be allowed to exit from the scheme added that the scheme is characterised with fraud and corruption.


Addressing the journalists in a world press conference in Benin city, the Edo State chairman of the Contributory Pension Scheme, SP  Anthony Nnachor retd, said they should be removed from the scheme.

He lamented that, most of their members have lost their lives because of the insufficient funds they are receiving from the scheme.

Nnachor said," we are here to let the whole world know the predicament we are passing through. We are in a peaceful mission. Everybody here seated with me would have served in the force for 35 years meritorious ly.

" It has become imperative for us to tell the world the problem we are going through. We are now living in an abject poverty and we can no longer meet up with our primary responsibility as parents.

" Majority of us are dieing everyday. What is the main reason? The police in 20O4 established a Pension Act . The serving members of the scheme is supposed to contribute 7%, while the federal government will contribute 8% as and then.

" Which means that you are working for your retirement. It is the money that you have worked they will use to pay you. At the end of your service, they will calculate what we call long sum and give you 25%. What we want now is for the federal government to exit us from this evil contributory pension scheme.


" The scheme is a killer disease, we have been in this struggle since 2019. The ninth assembly passed our bill assure us of Justice, but the ten assembly came they could not harmonize it, that is where we are today. We have done public hearing several times, the most annoying part of it is that this public hearing had been adjourned indefinitely. We want the National Assembly to passed the bill that have been with them.

" We are calling on President Bola Tinubu to hear our cry and prevail on relevant agencies who are against our exit to remove us from the scheme," he lamented.

They called on President Bola Tinubu to listen to their cry and prevail on relevant government agencies to do the needful.




Also speaking, The publicity secretary of the association, SP Johnson Oyameda advocated for the abolition of Nigeria Police Fund penson due to it fraudulent nature.

He appealed to the Inspector General of Police , Kayode Egbetokun to help them facilitate the process of exiting from the contributory pension scheme.


Another retired officer in the pension scheme,  John Adu stated that police is act of security in the country and cannot be taken for granted, appealing for transparency and accountability in the process of the pension company.

However, before the retired officers came to address the journalists, they first of all went to some major Streets in Benin city and protested against the injustice in the scheme.


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