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Retired police officers and their families, under the aegis of the Police Retired Officers Forum of Nigeria (PROF), blocked the entrance to the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday to protest the continued inclusion of the Nigeria Police Force in the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), which they insist is fraudulent, illegal, inhumane, and obnoxious.
The retirees said the protest aims to urge President Bola Tinubu to approve the Police Exit Bill passed by the National Assembly on December 4, 2025, and transmitted to the Presidency on March 16, 2026.
According to them, when signed into law, the bill will relieve police personnel from what they described as a “slavery and untimely death-inducing pension scheme.”
The National Coordinator of the PROF, CSP Raphael Irowainu (Rtd), who led the protest, said their aim is to convince Tinubu to sign the bill already passed by the National Assembly and sent to him. He said that while other security agencies in the country, such as the Army, Navy, Air Force, SSS, and others, have all been excluded from the scheme, the police remain trapped in it.
“Our major aim here is to prevail on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sign our bill exempting the police from the Contributory Pension Scheme passed by the National Assembly on December 4, 2025 and transmitted to him, into law, nothing more than that.
“The soldiers have been exited, the SSS has been exited, the Air Force has been exited, the Navy has been exited, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has been exited. The police, who are the father of them all, are trapped in this obnoxious Contributory Pension Scheme,” CSP Irowainu said.
Recall, this is not the first time retired officers have staged a protest over the CPS. In July last year, they protested at the National Assembly to demand their removal from the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS).
