A Benin-based lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olayiwola Afolabi, has appealed to the National Assembly to urgently intervene in the bill for a law seeking to establish the Police Pension Board and remove the police from the contributory pension scheme which was passed by the immediate past National Assembly.
He made the appeal in a letter he personally signed and addressed to the Senate President, Goodwill Akpabio in Abuja, explaining that after the passage of the bill into law, it was taken to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent but it was not signed due to some reasons.
The EkitiS State-born legal practitioner disclosed that most security agencies had since pulled out from the contributory pension scheme leaving only the commissioner of police down to the least officer in the police force as members of the scheme.
Against this backdrop, Afolabi hinted to the current National Assembly that the bill when signed into law by the President after some portions had been corrected, would put smiles on the faces of police officers who had been enslaved by the contributory pension scheme.
Besides, he said the signing of the bill into law would also reduce corruption in the Nigerian Police Force as every police officer would know that he is secured after retirement.
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