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Unpaid arrears Pension Rivers Pensioners issue One-week ultimatum to State Govt

Elderly citizens and Pensioners awaiting for their pension to be paid

…vows to occupy major streets, Tuesday next week.

Ibrahim Bakare

Pensioners in Rivers State have issued a one-week ultimatum to the Rivers State Government to pay them all their pension entitlements or they would have no option but embark on a protest.

The Pensioners gave this today after a meeting at the Rivers State Secretariat.

Leader and Spokesman of the Pensioners Lucky Ati told that if by Tuesday, November 5, nothing is done by the state government to pay them, they would occupy the streets.

Ati lamented that the government had released a budget of over N33m for pensioners yet nothing has happened and noted that 4,000 retirees in the state have been suffering with some even dead.

“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 of age, they are going to pay us gratuity and prompt pension, between now and Tuesday next week, if government do not do anything, we are going back to the streets”.

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Other Pensioners who spoke lamented that for 5 years they have been owed, they said out of 4,400 Pensioners government only paid 800 persons noting that over 4 months after Biometrics was done on Pensioners, no payment has been made them.

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