Ekiti State Attorney General and Justice Commissioner Olawale Fapohunda has filed a suit against Inspector General of Police (GP) Muhammed Adamu at the Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, over the sack of a pregnant unmarried female corporal, Olajide Omolola.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the policewoman attached to the Iye-Ekiti Police Station in Ilejemeje, joined the service in May 2020 and was dismissed by the force for getting pregnant less than a year after graduating from the Police Academy.
Fapohunda is seeking a court order to declare as unconstitutional Section 127 of the Police Act and Regulations, which provides for the discharge from the Police Force, policewomen who become pregnant while unmarried.
Other defendants in the suit are: Ekiti State Police Commissioner Tunde Mobayo and the Police Service Commission (PSC).
The Attorney General asked the court to determine, among others, whether the provisions of Section 127 of Police Act and Regulations are not in violation of the combined provisions of sections 37 and 42 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), and Articles 2,3, 5 18(3) and 19 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights and, therefore, unconstitutional, null and void.