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The assurance was conveyed through the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Command. Recall that the presidential candidate of African Action Congress, AAC, in the 2023 elections, Omoyele Sowore and other activists led retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IGP to meet protesting retired officers over pension demands<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"IGP to meet protesting retired officers over pension demands\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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