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Police retirees threaten to protest over Pension exit bill
By Francesca Hangeior
The National Union of Police Retirees, Kaduna State Branch has stated that it would organise the mother of all protests by occupying the National Assembly until President Bola Tinubu signs the Pension Exit Bill.
According to the retirees, they are earnestly waiting for “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, and there is the tendency that the promise may not be fulfilled as September is winding up.”
This was contained in a statement signed by the Chairman of the Police Retirees Kaduna State Chapter, CSP Mannir Lawal Zaria (Rtd) and the Vice Chairman,ASP Danlami Maigamo (Rtd),issued to journalists in Kaduna on Thursday.
They lamented that the police retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme were dying 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 price of commodity of any type is also on the increase.”
“The Federal Government should come to the aid of the police retirees under the contributory Pension Scheme before they all perish, by immediately paying the following allowances to the police retirees under the contributory Pension Scheme.
”The 2.5 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 it self because it 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.”
Famous American actor, Denzel Washington has revealed he has Nigerian ancestry.
The ‘Gladiator II’ actor disclosed that his heritage test shows that he is 90 per cent Irish and 10 per cent Nigerian.
Washington spoke in a recent interview with British-Nigerian media personality, Ada Enechi.
“I am 10 per cent Nigerian and 90 per cent Irish,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Denzel Washington has hinted at retirement.
The 69-year-old thespian disclosed during a press tour of his latest movie ‘Gladiator II’ in Australia that ‘Black Panther 3’ is one of his last films before retirement.
He said he would be retiring after shooting ‘Black Panther 3’, ‘Othello 2’ and ‘King Lear.’
About 20 suspected criminals arrested for various crimes across Osun State, including three suspected highway armed robbers, were on Friday paraded by the state police command.
Presenting the suspects to journalists, the spokesperson for the police, Yemisi Opalola, said the armed robbery suspects, Olajide Kareem (28), Mike Emmanuel (33), and Godwin Emmanuel (23) were arrested along Osu/Ilesa road.
Opalola said the suspects, during their operations robbed many people of their jewelries, phones cash, and other valuables.
She added that during one of the robbery incidents, a bus driver was shot in the leg, while a female passenger was raped by one of the suspects.
Also paraded was Emmanuel Anthony, accused of using military uniforms to rob passengers along Ekiti road, where he forced a victim from Esa Oke, to transfer a sum of N3m to his account.
Anthony was also accused of robbing other people of their mobile phones valued at N1.25m.
Seven other suspects arrested for conspiracy, armed robbery and receipt of stolen vehicles, were also paraded.
Four northern states of Gombe, Bauchi, Benue and Plateau have been thrown into darkness, due to a fault on the 330kV double circuit transmission lines of Ugwuji-Makurdi-Jos.
The states are among the franchise area of Jos Electricity Distribution Company.
According to the Head of Corporate Communications, JEDC, Friday Elijah, the tripping of the lines occurred in the afternoon on Friday, resulting in the loss of power supply on all the 33KV feeders.”
He disclosed that the Transmission Company of Nigeria engineers were working to rectify the fault.
“We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the fault is rectified and power supply is restored back to normalcy,” said Elijah.
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