A former Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of ICT, and Research and Development, DIG Moses Jitoboh (Rtd) has sued the Police Service Commission (PSC) at the National Industrial Court over his compulsory retirement when he is yet to attain the mandatory retirement tenure of 35 years in service nor the age limit of 60 years.
Retired DIG Jitoboh, is also “praying the National Industrial Court to declare his retirement as as wrongful, unconstitutional, and unlawful”.
Additionally, DIG Jitoboh is praying for an order of the National Industrial court “directing the PSC to pay the sum of ₦500million only as general damages for the unwarranted embarrassment caused by the purported termination of his employment as he had been portrayed to be a disloyal office”r. Furthermore, the retired DIG is seeking a “declaration of the National Industrial Court that pursuant to Section 4 of the Police Service Commission Act, 2001 the defendant has no valid board to take any decision whatsoever purporting to retire or promote any police officer as the PSC Board tenure elapsed in July of 2023.
It would be recalled that the PSC in a statement on Monday, August 28, 2023 compulsorily announced the retirement of DIG Jitoboh and three other DIGs on the grounds of upholding police tradition of retiring officers when a junior police officer is promoted over senior officers to avoid ‘status reversal’The PSC said the order became imperative because PSC had expected those DIGs who were seniors in rank prior to the Acting IGP, Kayode Egbetokun, to voluntarily retire.
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