The Nigerian Police Retired Officers Forum, Kogi State chapter, has called on the National Assembly to save their members from untold hardship as a result of unpaid pensions by the Nigeria Police Pension Limited since their disengagement from the Force.
They also called on the senate to review the Pension Reform Act of 2004 in order to return them to the old pension scheme like their counterparts in other security agencies.
In a statement by signed by Shaibu Oke ( ASP. rtd), Chairman and ASP Joseph Abu (Rtd), Public Relations Officer in Lokoja, the Forum lamented that the inability of the pension fund to release its members’ entitlements is having advance effect on them.
The forum called on the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan and the entire Senate to wade into the matter by reviewing the act.
The statement noted with dismay that the new contributory pension scheme stipulated that both the pension commission and the retirees should agree on the modality of payment but regretted that the commission would pay whatever amount it wants without recourse to the contributors.
It added that retirees from 2017 till date have not been able to collect their lump sum and monthly pensions, stressing that the Nigeria Police Force as a leading security agency in internal security have been unfairly treated.
“We urged the National Assembly members to review PENCOM law so that all the police retirees that were already in the force before the Act of 2004 should be exempted from the contributory pension and pulled out of this uncomfortable condition.
“We urge the federal government to review our monthly pensions, which cannot take us home. How can somebody who had served his country for 35 years and retired as assistant superintendent of police earn between N25,009 and N30,000,” it noted.
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