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A System Where Nigerian Policemen Get N1.5million Gratuity After 35 Years Of Service Is Unjust – Sowore

A System Where Nigerian Policemen Get N1.5million Gratuity After 35 Years Of Service Is Unjust – Sowore
March 1, 2024

The activist who was presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) during the 2019 and 2023 general elections, added that an unjust system was not sustainable for the country.

Human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, has described as unjust the system where Nigerian policemen who worked for 35 years in service are only entitled to N1.5million gratuity.

 

Sowore who took to his X (formerly Twitter) to condemn such unjust system, which he described as unsustainable, recalled that a state governor that served only eight years maximum is entitled to houses in Abuja, Lagos, change of cars every year, police escorts, annual medicals abroad and all sorts of life pensions, allowances and benefits.

 

The activist who was presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) during the 2019 and 2023 general elections, added that an unjust system was not sustainable for the country.

 

He wrote: "An unjust system remains an unjust system, it remains unsustainable, how on earth could a @policeng that worked for 35 years in service be entitled to only N1.5 Million gratuity?

 

"Whereas a State governor that served only 8 years maximum is entitled to houses in Abuja, Lagos, change of cars every year, police escorts, annual medicals abroad and all sorts of life pensions, allowances and benefits?

 

"What a Country! #RevolutionNow"

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