July 21, 2025
Retired police officers on Monday staged a protest at the entrance gate of the National Assembly in Abuja to demand for their removal from the Contributory Pension Scheme.
Comprising of elderly ex-police personnel, the demonstrators who defined the rains, carried placards with varied inscriptions and chanted solidarity songs insisting that their welfare and dignity had been neglected for too long.
Speaking on behalf of the protesters, a retired Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Manir Lawal, called on the government to exit police retirees from what he described as exploitative and unjust pension scheme.
Lawal, said ” We are here to ask the government to remove us from the CPS. The pension scheme is exploitative and unjust.
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“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.”
Defying the rain, the retirees insisted, vowing not to leave until their concerns were addressed by the leadership of the National Assembly.
Security operatives were seen monitoring the protest to prevent any breakdown of law and order.
Meanwhile, the Police Community Relations Committee, PCRC, has said that the protest was an attempt to discredit the Inspector General of Police, IGP and the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
PCRC had warned against the protest, calling on the aggrieved retirees to return to the table for negotiations.
