 The Nigeria Labor Congress, PENCOM, and other agencies have agreed with Inspector General of Police over the exemption of the Nigeria Police Force from the Contributory Pension Scheme. This happened during a one-day public hearing on two bills by the House Committee on Pension on Tuesday at the Nation's Assembly. Emmanuel Ahijanes' report is presented from our studio. Following the removal of the Nigerian Army, the Navy and the Air Force and most early security agencies from the Contributory Pension Scheme, the Nigeria Police is now demanding an exemption as well. This follows a motion on the floor of the House of Representatives by Honorable Ejirogane Wave, who is supporting the exemption of the police from the scheme, saying it will boost the morale of officers and men. The Inspector General of Police, Usman Akali Baba, represented by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sanyusi Lemu, said the police should be placed on same status like the armed forces and the DSS, since their duties involved taking maximum risk in protecting the internal security of the country and maintaining low end order. Those presently accepted are the military, the intelligence, the secret service and all of that. The Nigerian Contributory Pension Scheme was designed after the Chilean experience, where the military and the police were exempted, but in that case when the law was enacted, somehow the police was left out of it and I thought this was not good enough, judging from the fact that the police, they carry a lot of the burden, in fact most of the burden of law enforcement in the country. The need for the exit of the members of the Nigerian Police Force who perform both military and intelligence function in addition to their statutory functions for the current Contributory Pension Scheme has become expedient. The justification for this position is that the Nigerian Police Force is the lead agency started with the responsibility of maintaining internal security, low end order in the country with attendant risk and sacrifices, including the supreme sacrifice by the measure of their statutory responsibility as such should get equal treatment with the armed forces on other intelligence services. This position was however countered by PENCOM and the Nigeria Labour Congress stating that removing the police will make the scheme unsustainable. The photo stated that it will add additional financial burden on the federal government as well as discourage other agencies' participation. We are very surprised because we did meet with the Nigerian Police Force and the IG sent a DIG, the SGF chaired the meeting and at the meeting the representative of the IG did tell us categorically that the police was not interested in exiting the CPS. This is our third time coming to this house for the same purpose of the attempt to remove the police and we have to ask these basic questions. What has changed? Where will the money to fund the development of this scheme for exempted officers confirmed? Will it still be found there from national budget that is currently hardly sufficient to fund other commitments of government, including health care and social security? Though majority of the stakeholders at the public hearing favoured the exemption of the police from the scheme, the committee has said that it will look at it in general on its marriage before sending it to the committee for further imputes.