A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has struck out a suit by the Ekiti State Government against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) over the dismissal of pregnant policewomen.
According to the suit instituted by the Attorney-General of Ekiti, Wale Fapounda, the state faulted the officer’s dismissal, saying such amounts to abuse of court processes.
Fapounda also demanded an order of the court to nullify Section 127 of the Police Act and Regulations, which provides for the discharge from the Police Force female officers who become pregnant while married unofficially.
But in his ruling on Thursday, Justice Babs Kuewumi held that;
”This suit can not validly co-exist with the suit at the National Industrial Court, sitting in Akure in Ondo State with suit number: NICN/AK/14/2021. The Originating Summons of this suit is hereby dismissed.”
The development comes after the judge earlier ruled in favour of the plaintiff the reliefs bordering on “locus standi”, whether the court has jurisdiction and whether the appropriate parties have been joined in the suit.
The state Attorney-General had also told the court that the dismissal of the policewomen, an indigene of Ekiti because she got pregnant before being legally married violates her fundamental right
As entrenched in the Constitution of Nigeria,1999( as amended).
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Fapounda, therefore, sought the interpretation of Section 127 Police Regulation.
