{"id":170682,"date":"2025-07-21T22:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:14:41","slug":"poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers","title":{"rendered":"Poor welfare: IGP meets protesting retired police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, is currently meeting with retired police officers who were protesting in Abuja over poor welfare.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is taking place at the Peacekeeping Hall, Force Headquarters, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, some retired police officers protested at the National Assembly to demand their removal from the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, who were mostly elderly, stood in the rain, holding placards and chanting anti-government songs.<\/p>\n<p>The IGP had earlier pledged to personally engage with retired police officers protesting over poor retirement benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Egbetokun, while addressing the protesters, said welfare of retired police officers is being addressed but the exit of the Force from the contributory pension scheme is not something that can be activated immediately<\/p>\n<p>He urged the leaders of the protest to refrain from spreading wrong narratives as the Force cannot abandon their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, is currently meeting with retired police officers who were protesting in Abuja over poor welfare. The meeting is taking place at the Peacekeeping Hall, Force Headquarters, in Abuja. Earlier on Monday, some retired police officers protested at the National Assembly to demand their removal from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[10651,300,254],"class_list":["post-170682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-egbetokun","tag-igp","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Poor welfare: IGP meets protesting retired police officers - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, is currently meeting with retired police officers who were protesting ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Poor welfare: IGP meets protesting retired police officers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, is currently meeting with retired police officers who were protesting ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T21:06:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T22:14:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753123562.991194.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1150\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Poor welfare: IGP meets protesting retired police officers\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-21T21:06:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-21T22:14:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers\"},\"wordCount\":162,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753123562.991194.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Egbetokun\",\"IGP\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/poor-welfare-igp-meets-protesting-retired-police-officers\",\"name\":\"Poor welfare: IGP meets protesting retired police officers - 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