The Edo State Police Command headquarters Benin City was yesterday besieged by protesting retired Senior police officers over alleged poor remuneration even as they called on the police authority to remove them from the police contributing pension scheme to the old scheme benefit of the police force.
They said,they deserved better treatment after giving their productive years to the service of Nigeria.
Speaking on behalf of the protesting senior citizens, the chairman of the Edo State Police Senior Officers Retirees, Anthony Nnachor said he retired as a Superintendent of Police (SP) and that the police retirees remain the least paid among all the security agencies in Nigeria whereas the police isthe lead security agency in Nigeria, but that their welfare is not been properly catered for.
He alleged that their promotion allowance for 2017 and resettlement allowances have not been paid till date, a situation he described as the “highest form of injustice and inhuman treatment” and appealed to the Federal Government to review the police scheme and return their pension scheme to the police-defined benefit of the old.
Responding to the protesters, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations Edo State command Mr Miller Dantawaye said the current serving police men share from their pains and maintained that the commissioner of police Philip Ogbadu would channel their grievance to the police force headquarters Abuja
