By Kassim Omomia
The Nigeria Police Force has commenced the 2nd phase of the nationwide registration and capturing of retired police officers in the ongoing enrolment of retired police officers on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
The exercise scheduled to commence on 15th March 2021, is aimed at ensuring that no retired police officer, including his or her spouse, anywhere in the country, irrespective of rank on retirement, is left out from having full access to all NHIS services and benefits covered by the Police Health Maintenance Organization (Police-HMO) Code-073.
A statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, explained that the exercise is in three batches and will take place at the various Police Area Commands in the country.
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‘’All retired police officers, each with a spouse, who were not captured during the 1st phase of the exercise, are therefore required to visit any Police Area Command closest to them in their States of resident) with their Letter of Retirement and Retiree’s I.D Card’’, Mba also said.
According to Mba, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, is passionate about the welfare of the retirees and has assured that the Police leadership will continue to do all within its powers, in collaboration with relevant State Actors and Institutions, to address all pending issues surrounding their general welfare.
The registration and services provided under the scheme is absolutely at no cost and without any form of deduction whatsoever from retirees’ monthly pension, the police boss said and, therefore called on retired officers, who are yet to be captured on the Scheme, to take optimum advantage of the 2nd phase exercise to get enrolled.
Meanwhile according to the timetable, the nationwide registration and capturing exercise are scheduled to hold from Monday, 15 -18 March 2021, covering South East states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. Others are South South zone, including Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, and Rivers.
Other batches are North Central, covering, Benue, FCT, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger and Plateau, as well as South west states, of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo,Osun and Oyo , all commencing from 22nd -25th of March 2021
North East and North west zones of the country have their exercise slated from Monday, 12th -15th April 2021.
The states affected include, Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe.
Others are Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara)
