The controversial Regulation 127 of the Nigeria Police Regulation made pursuant to the Police Establishment Act 2020 provides for the dismissal of any unmarried policewoman who gets pregnant.
In nullifying the law, the judge said “the court…finds and holds that the provision of Section 127 of the Police Act and Regulation 127 thereof, which applies to unmarried women police officers getting pregnant while in service but does not apply to unmarried male police officers impregnating females while they are in service, are discriminatory against unmarried women police officers by Section 1 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the case of the claimant succeeds in part…,” the judge said, pointing out the illegality in the police law. The claimant said she was phoned by the DPO Iye-Ekiti, Humphrey Ogbu, a deputy superintendent of police, on 21 January 2021, informing her to be at the Nigeria Police Medical Service, Ekiti State Command, Cottage Hospital, Ado Ekiti, to undergo a medical test.
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