Some 30,000 retired police officers will boycott the April polls if their pension is not paid, an official of their association has said.
The Chairman of the Cross River chapter of the Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria, Chief Effiong Orok, stated this on Monday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Orok said, retired police officers were not being paid their pension as and when due.
He said, “We will boycott the April polls if our money is not paid. Let us be paid and we will go out happily to vote.
“What I’m telling you is the mindset of my colleagues. It has a multiplier effect.
“Some people have served the government and the government cares for them, but some persons sit on their money.
“A hungry man cannot stand in the queue on the day of elections except his pension is paid to him.’’
According to him, the Police Pension Board, has paid them part of their pension arrears.
He said that only 17, 392 retired police officers were paid while 11,000 others were yet to get their entitlements.
In 2010, the Federal Government approved N24bn for the payment of pension to retired police officers nation-wide.
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