Court Abolishes Police Regulation On Unmarried Pregnant Officers
The National Industrial Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital in a judgment delivered by Justice Damulak has held that the provision of section 127 of the Police Act and Regulation 127 that is applicable to unmarried women police officers getting pregnant while in service but not applicable to unmarried male police officers impregnating females while in service, is discriminatory against the female officers. The above regulation is inconsistent with Section 42 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Article 2 of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights which abolishes gender discrimination. Recall the former Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, dismissed one Miss Omolola Olajide on 26th January 2021, for getting pregnant out of wedlock.