Someone From Your LG Has to Die to be Enlisted for Pensions-Adamawa Pensioners lament

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Someone From Your LG Has to Die to be Enlisted for Pensions-Adamawa Pensioners lament

By Billy Graham Abel Yola

The state chapter of the Nigerian Union of  Pensioners have alleged that the Adamawa state government under Muhammed Umaru Jibrilla Bindow wants to eliminate pensioners in the state saying the local government pension managers in the state have devised an evil scheme where someone from your local government has to die before you get a chance to be captured as a pensioners.

They lamented that pensioners are people who worked for the development of the state, so it is sad that they have been neglected.

They also claimed that the government has failed to capture over one thousand six hundred local government pensioners who retired in the last three to six years for payment and that the state government is still owing pensioners about N27 billion in gratuity payments.

This is contained in a press statement made available to Newsmen, at the commemoration of the world Pensioners Day, Thursday, in Yola, Adamawa. 

Samson Almuru said, "There are over 1600 local government Pensioners who have retired for more than 3-6 years but until now they have not been captured or placed for the payment of their monthly pension.

"Local government staff pension board have devised a way that when a pensioner dies from a local government then he shall be replaced by another pensioner from his local government who has not been placed on a monthly pension."

The pensioners decried that they all cannot keep waiting for people from their local governments to die before they would be captured for pension.

The pensioners said, "The state government is owing a gratuity of more than N27 billion for both the state and local government staff pensioners with no hope of getting the state government to offset this liability in the nearest future." 

The retirees lamented that they are the least paid pensioners in North East zone as they receive as little as N4000 thousand naira while sister states like Bauchi and Gombe states receive about N12,000 and N9000 respectively.

They called on the state government to harmonise pensions in the state in order to avert to the situation where pensioners payment have never appreciated for decades.

The pensioners warned that the state government should respond to their plea because they have votes and have power to influence votes of their children and grandchildren in the forthcoming elections.

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