BREAKING: Nigerian Court Quashes Regulation Backing Dismissal Of Unmarried Pregnant Policewoman, Omolola, Awards N5Million Damages Against Police AuthoritiesKnown as ‘Regulation 127 of the Nigeria Police Regulation made pursuant to the Police Establishment Act 2020,’ Justice D. K. Damulak on Wednesday held that it is illegal and discriminatory.
Miss Omolola Olajide of the Ekiti Police Command was dismissed on January 26, 2021 by Mohammed Adamu, former Inspector-General of Police, for getting pregnant barely a year after graduating from the police academy while being single. In a judgment delivered at the Akure Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court on Wednesday, the presiding Judge, Justice D. K. Damulak held that the “police regulation which permits the dismissal of unmarried pregnant police women is discriminatory, illegal, null and void as it violates section 42 of the Constitution and article 2 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights Ratification and Enforcement Act which abolished discrimination on basis of gender”.
"For the avoidance of doubt, the case of the Claimant succeeds in part only in terms of prayer B which is A Declaration that the provisions of Regulation 127 and section 127 of the Police Act which is against women police officers getting pregnant before marriage but does not apply to male police officers impregnating women before marriage is discriminatory, illegal and unconstitutional as it violates the Claimant’s Fundamental Right under Section 42 of the 1999 Constitution and Article 2...
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happy to hear this
She should just resign. She is wrong to challenge it since it's a document she accented to when she was getting into the Force.
This is a welcome development!
Disgusting that PoliceNG and MinofPoliceNG are discriminating and maltreating Women. The whole police regulation that treat women differently from men should be reviewed.
She still has to bettle with thought of wither the Policeng will obey the court order, that's how bad Nigeria is.
Wow, so such a law existed? Then they should have a law dismissing divorced persons in the force right? People make mistakes all the time, that doesn't mean they should be crucified!
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