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The national industrial court has voided a regulation of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), which prohibits unmarried officers from getting pregnant, describing the provision as discriminatory. <\/p>\n

Pursuant to Regulation 127 of the Nigeria Police Force Regulation, a female officer who gets pregnant outside wedlock will be dismissed.<\/p>\n

BACKGROUND<\/p>\n

Recall that Omolola Olajide, an unmarried police corporal attached to Iye-Ekiti station, was sacked in 2021 for getting pregnant.<\/a><\/p>\n

Babatunde Mobayo, the state commissioner of police, had said Olajide\u2019s sack was right, saying the officer violated section 127 of the police regulations.<\/p>\n

Following the sack, Olawale Fapohunda, Ekiti state attorney-general and commissioner for justice, had filed a suit before a federal high court in Ekiti seeking an order of the court nullifying section 127 of the Police Act. <\/p>\n

But the court had dismissed the suit on the grounds that it is an abuse of court process since a similar suit filed by Olajide is pending before the national industrial court.<\/p>\n

\u2018POLICE ACT DISCRIMINATORY\u2019<\/p>\n

Delivering judgment in the suit marked NICN\/AK\/14\/2021, Dashe Damulak, the presiding judge in the court\u2019s Akure division, held that the particular section of the police regulation is \u201cdiscriminatory, illegal, null and void\u201d.<\/p>\n

The court held that the regulation \u201cviolates section 42 of the (Nigerian) constitution and article 2 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights Ratification and Enforcement Act which abolished discrimination on basis of gender.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court\u2026 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, is discriminatory against unmarried women police officers by section 1(3) of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf any law is inconsistent with the provision of this constitution, this constitution shall prevail, and that other law shall to the extent of its inconsistency be void.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018CLAIMANT CANNOT BE REINSTATED\u2019<\/p>\n

Although the court nullified the \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d regulation, the judge said Olajide cannot be reinstated into the police force.<\/p>\n

The judge held that the claimant\u2019s dismissal could not be reversed as she was on probation at the time of her sack from the force.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, the case of the claimant succeeds in part only in terms of prayer B,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n

The judge, however, awarded aggravated damages of N5 million for the violation of Olajide\u2019s fundamental right to freedom from discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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BACKGROUND Recall that Omolola Olajide, an unmarried police 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