Retired DIG sues PSC, calls for reinstatement, ₦550m damages

A compulsorily retired Deputy Inspector Basic of Police, Mr. Moses Jitoboh, has prayed the Nationwide Industrial Court docket sitting in Abuja to declare his retirement by the Police Service Fee earlier than his necessary 60 years retirement age or 35 years in service, as wrongful, unconstitutional, and illegal.

Jitoboh, in his assertion of claims filed earlier than the court docket, additional described his obligatory retirement as a flagrant violation of Rule 020810 of the Public Service Guidelines and Part 18 (8) of the Nigeria Police Act, 2020, respectively.

The PUNCH studies that the PSC had in a press release on Monday, August 28, 2023, introduced the retirement of DIG Jitoboh and three others on the grounds of upholding police custom of retiring officers when a junior police officer is promoted over senior officers to keep away from ‘standing reversal’.

In the meantime, retired DIG Jitoboh can also be praying for an order of the court docket directing the PSC to pay the sum of ₦500bmillion solely as normal damages for the unwarranted embarrassment attributable to the purported termination of his employment as he had been portrayed to be a disloyal officer.

He’s additionally asking for one more sum of ₦50 million as the price of prosecuting the continuing motion.

Jitoboh, in his assertion of claims, maintained that he was and stays an officer of the Nigeria Police Power till the tenth day of June, 2029 when he would have attained 35 years in service and duly retire, and that he’s due to this fact entitled to his salaries, emoluments and all different paraphernalia of workplace on account of him.

The compulsorily retired DIG can also be looking for the declaration of the Nationwide Industrial Court docket that pursuant to Part 4 (3) of the Police Service Fee Act, 2001 the defendant (PSC) has no legitimate board to take any resolution by any means purporting to retire or promote any police officer because the PSC Board tenure elapsed in July of 2023.

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