Atiku accuses Tinubu of abandoning retired police officers to hardship

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of abandoning retired constabulary officers to hunger, unwellness and humiliation, alleging that immoderate serving officers are besides dipping into their pension savings to provender their families.

Atiku called for an contiguous effect to the Police Exit Bill and an urgent wage reappraisal for serving constabulary officers, pursuing the wage summation approved for members of the Armed Forces.

In a connection issued by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said a retired constabulary serviceman had told him that helium received a monthly pension of N29,000.

He besides recounted the lawsuit of a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police who allegedly sought menial enactment aft years of work to the country.

Atiku said retired constabulary officers had protested astatine the National Assembly alongside their wives and children, calling for authorities to amended their welfare.

“Retired constabulary officers stood astatine the gates of the National Assembly with their wives and children. Some of those children carried pla...