"One of our members, Gabriel
Nomsha, from Gwer West Local Government Area, committed suicide last week as a
result of poverty and frustration."
He explained that after the
deceased had been screened, he came with the hope of collecting his pension but
was disappointed when he wasn’t paid.
At least 2,000 local pensioners
from 23 local government areas of the state on Tuesday slept at the
gate of the Government House in Makurdi to protest the non-payment of their
pension to the tune of N1.1 billion.
The pensioners arrived the
government House in the afternoon but could not see the governor so they
decided to pass the night at the gate of government house.
Efforts by security operatives
mounting the gate to disperse them were rebuffed. The next morning Governor
Samuel Ortom who was travelling to Abuja, came to address them.
Vambe who led the pensioners,
said the protest became necessary after the Ministry of Finance stopped giving
money to Local Government Pensions Board.
"We slept at the gate of the
Government House since yesterday to press home our demands for the payment of
our pension. The finance ministry stopped giving money to Local Government
Pensions Board and this is causing our hardship."
Governor Ortom, who sympathised
with them, said their welfare was of utmost importance to his government and
promised to do everything possible to clear their pension arrears.
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Those benefiting from the hardship of the pensioners will never know peace and will die untimely. Only mad men/ women support looters. This is sad. Nigeria is a crime scene.
ReplyDeleteGovernor Ortom should hear that, or was the man too old to collect his own wheel barrow empowerment gift from the Benue state government?
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