Nigeria Police retirees block Presidential Villa gate over contributory pension scheme

*Cross-sections of the retirees of the Nigeria Police Force, under the aegis of the Police Retired Officers Forum of Nigeria (PROF) have described the continued inclusion of the NPF in the Contributory Pension Scheme as ‘fraudulent, illegal, inhumane and obnoxious’

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

Retirees of the Nigeria Police Force under the aegis of the Police Retired Officers Forum of Nigeria (PROF) Monday, April 20, 2026, protested at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, FCT, urging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sign the Police Exit Bill passed by the National Assembly (NASS) December 2025.

ConsumerConnect reports the Police Exit Bill seeks to withdraw the Nigeria Police Force from the existing Contributory Pension Scheme.

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During the protest, scores of the protesters walked from the Three Arms Zone, in Abuja, through the street in front of the Police Headquarters in the capital city.

They also carried placards with various inscriptions, in addition to the Nigerian flag and the flag of the Nigeria Police Force.

CSP Raphael Irowainu, National Coordinator of PROF, led the protesters, who described the retention of the NPF in the Contributory Pension Scheme as “fraudulent and illegal”.

They also said the CPS is inhumane and obnoxious.

The protesters as well sought to prevail on President Tinubu to give assent to the Police Exit Bill passed by the National Assembly December 4, 2025, and transmitted to the President March 16 this year.

When signed into law, they noted, the Act would completely exempt the police from what they called a “slavery and untimely death-inducing pension scheme.”

The protesters, accompanied by some of their spouses and children, also blocked Gate 8 leading into the Presidential Villa, causing obstruction to vehicular movement.

However, efforts by Villa security personnel to dissuade them from the protest proved abortive as they insisted on seeing the President.

The protesters even laid their mats in front of the gate, singing songs of solidarity, while some of them lay on the floor.

CSP Irowainu told reporters that their main purpose for the demonstration was to prevail on President Tinubu, to sign the bill exiting the Nigeria Police Force from the CPS, which he said has been passed and transmitted to him by the National Assembly.

He lamented that while other security agencies in the country such as the Army, Navy, Air Force, SSS and others have all been exited 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—the bill exiting the police from the Contributory Pension Scheme—passed by the National Assembly on 4th December 2025 and transmitted to him on 16th March, 2026, 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.

It is not the first-time retired officers are staging a protest over the CPS. In July last year, they demonstrated at the National Assembly to demand their removal from the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS).

The demonstrators, mostly elderly, stood in the rain holding placards and chanting anti-government songs.

Some of the retired police officers also besieged the Force Headquarters in Abuja to protest against the CPS.

Addressing the protesters at the time, the then Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, said the welfare of retired police officers was being addressed, but that the exit of the Force from the Contributory Pension Scheme was not something that could be implemented immediately.

He, however, advised the leaders of the protest to refrain from spreading misinformation, stressing that the Force could not abandon its own.

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