Heartbreaking! 1.1 million pensioners die while waiting pension in Kwara

Heartbreaking! 1.1 million pensioners die while waiting pension in Kwara – NUP

– The NUP has said that over a million pensioners in Kawara, have died waiting for their pensions

– NUP says the staggering figures were registered between January 2015 and February 2017

– The union says over 1000 of its members died as a result of lack of money to meet their medications in the hospital

– NUP revealed that about 6,000 local government pensioners, primary and junior secondary schools teachers across the 16 LGAs of the state, were being owed N5billion unpaid gratuities

The Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), on Thursday, February 16, claimed that a total of 1,126,000 pensioners in Kwara state alone, have died between January 2015 and February, 2017 awaiting their pensions from the state government.

The union accused the state government of being the cause of the death of local government pensioners.

Daily Post reports that they also claimed that over 1000 of its members died as a result of lack of money to meet their medications in the hospital.

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Saddening! 1.1 million pensioners die while waiting pension in Kwara – NUP

Chairman of the Kwara chapter of the Union, Isiaka Akanbi, while addressing a press conference in Ilorin, the state capital,

yesterday, gave names of four pensioners who died recently in Ifelodun Local Government Area to include one Garba Okoye, N.S Alabi, 72, Mrs. John, 62, and Alashi, 68.

He further revealed that about 6,000 local government pensioners, primary and junior secondary schools teachers across the 16 LGAs of the state, were being owed N5billion unpaid gratuities.

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Akanbi said the last payment of gratuity to retirees from the 16 Local Government workers and teachers was 10 years ago, accusing the state government of, “stagnation of payment of gratuities, non-implementation of 20% harmonisation of year 2010 salary increase.”

Akanbi, however, called on the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who was a former governor of the state, to prevail on the governor to pay his members’ pensions and gratuities with a view to alleviating their hardships.

After presenting Prado Jeeps and Land cruisers to the Speaker and members of the Imo state House of Assembly, report surfaced that Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state was planning to slash the entitlements of pensioners.

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