Pensioners have issued a one-week
ultimatum to the Rivers State Government to pay them all their pension
entitlements or face a statewide-protest.
The pensioners issued the
ultimatum after their meeting at the Rivers State Secretariat, Port Harcourt.
Leader of the pensioners, Lucky
Ati in an interview with newsmen said that if by Tuesday November 5, 2019,
nothing was done by the state government to pay them their outstanding
allowances, they would occupy the streets of Port Harcourt.
Ati lamented that the government
had released a budget of over N33m for pensioners yet nothing has happened,
just as he noted that 4,000 retirees in the state had been suffering because of
hardship.
He added that some of their
members were now dead on the course of their struggle to survive.
“It is our right, we are not
asking anything outside our right, we enter into a pensionable employment that
says after 35 years of service or 60 years o age. They are meant to pay us our
gratuity and prompt pension.
“Between now and Tuesday next
week, if government do not do anything, we are going back to the streets.
“Out of 4,400 pensioners
government only paid 800 persons despite carrying out series of biometric 4
months ago,” Ati said.
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