On Monday in Abuja, hundreds of retired police officers and their families issued a warning to President Bola Tinubu, indicating that he may jeopardize their electoral support should he fail to enact the Police Exit Bill, which seeks to remove the police force from the Contributory Pension Scheme.
CSP Raphael Irowainu (retd.), the National Coordinator of the Police Retired Officers Forum of Nigeria who led the protest stated that the retired police officers across the nation would use their votes well in the coming election.
“We are calling on President Bola Tinubu to sign our bill as a matter of urgency,” he said.
“He should know that in Nigeria, we are very serious stakeholders. Retirees are scattered all over Nigeria.
“We will use our votes judiciously and those of our families to determine our future in the coming elections. From Zamfara, Maiduguri to Cross River, we are in thousands among the populace.”
“When in service, they kill us. We who survived and managed to retire, they programme us to die again. Many of us retire with disabilities and sickness.
“Many of us here have bullets in our bodies in the course of our duty.
“Unless the President fixes the problems of the police, internal security problems will not stop. We are the force closest to the people.
“We will remain in Abuja until that bill is signed. We will protest at the airport and the US embassy, we will cry out until this bill is signed.
