PDP Demands Higher Pay for Nigeria’s Security Personnel

The country’s security forces should receive better welfare packages, according to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to reports, Kabiru Taminu Turaki, the PDP National Chairman, made the request in a statement on Thursday in honor of the 2026 Armed Forces Remembrance Day.
He claims that in carrying out their constitutional obligations to defend Nigeria’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, a number of Armed Forces men have lost their lives while serving.

In order to help them carry out their duties more successfully, Turaki called for greater welfare packages for personnel of the armed forces as well as all members of the security and intelligence sector.

Additionally, the party demanded that all security services receive more cash.

The PDP statement offered condolences to the families of those who had lost loved ones and prayed that their efforts would not be forgotten and that their deaths would not be in vain.

“As our nation commemorates the 2026 Armed Forces Remembrance Day, we offer our sincere condolences to the families of members of the Armed Forces who died in active service while carrying out their mandate of protecting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our country,” the whole statement says.

“We take use of this opportunity to demand greater welfare packages for all personnel of the security and intelligence community as well as members of the armed forces, so they can more effectively carry out their designated tasks. In order to successfully neutralize the agents of insecurity and bring peace and security back to our nation, we further implore the Federal Government to provide sufficient funding to the security services.

“On this day, we recognize that they paid the ultimate price for our nation’s continued existence. We urge all actors—state or non-state—to refrain from taking any measures that could cause the nation to become unstable. In remembrance of those who have lost their lives defending our nation, we ask that their sacrifices be remembered and that their deaths not be in vain.