The Nigeria Police Force has sacked an unmarried female
corporal, Olajide Omolola, for getting pregnant.
This is contained in a police wireless message with
reference number CJ:4161/EKS/IY/Vol.2/236, DTO:181330/01/2021.
The signal originated from the Department of Finance and
Administration in Ado Ekiti and was addressed to the Divisional Police Officer
at Iye Ekiti where Omolola is based.
In the document it was stated that Omolola completed police training on April 24, 2020 and was attached to Iye Ekiti.
The chief financial officer in Ekiti was asked to relay the
information of her dismissal to the Integrated Personnel and Payroll
Information System to ensure that her salary is stopped.
The document read, “Section 127 of the Police Act and
Regulation against women police getting pregnant before marriage W/PC (woman
corporal) Olajide Omolola passed out of Police Training School on 24/04/2020
attached to yours contravened above provisions.
“She stands dismissed from the Force. Dekit her. Retrieve
police documents in her possession with immediate effect. O/C CFO Ekiti only.
You are to relay signal to IPPIS Abuja for the stoppage of her salary with
immediate effect.
“DECOMPOLS (deputy commissioners of police)/ACPOLS
(assistant commissioners of police)/HODs/DPOs Ekiti State only. You are to
lecture women police. Treat as very urgent.”
Investigations however, showed that the aspect
of the Police Act which was being relied on to justify the sacking of the
policewoman had been repealed in the amended Police Act that was signed into
law by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in September
2020.
Part of the old law which has been repealed also made it
compulsory for policewomen to seek the permission of their superiors before
getting married.
Speaking with our correspondent on Sunday, a champion for
police reforms in Nigeria, Dr. Innocent Chukwuma, who is also the Regional
Director for Ford Foundation, West Africa, said indeed, the aspect of the
Police Act which barred unmarried policewomen from getting pregnant had been
repealed.
Chukwuma, however, said the law had not yet been gazetted
hence the ignorance of its provisions by the police.
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