Igho Oyoyo
The leadership of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners[NUP] has called for the abrogation of state pension laws in the country.
This followed the recent enactment by the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly of a pension law in which retired governors and their deputies are to pocket as much as N100 million.
The union in a press statement signed by the national president, Dr A. O. Afolayan, also condemned in strong term the passage of the pension bill by the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly.
According to Afolayan, "The news of the jumbo pension pay, fashioned out by the Akwa Ibom State Government under the leadership of Governor Akpabio, came as a bombshell that caught the anger of all and sundry, including the impoverished Nigerian pensioners who are groaning daily to access their meager monthly pensions."
He said that it is not only sad but regrettable that in a country where scores of pensioners across the states who had served the country with clean records cannot access their various forms of entitlements, ranging from short-payments to non-harmonisation of their pensions, non-payment of gratuity and other sundry benefits".
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