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UNN Retirees Seeks Inquiry Into Administration Of Pension Fund
Retirees from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), under the aegis of Federal Universities Pensioners Association (FUPA), have called for inquiry into the administration of the institution’s pension fund.
Mr Peter Okolo, FUPA chairman, UNN branch, made the call in Enugu on Wednesday while briefing newsmen.
He called on Mrs Chineze Obi, the university’s bursar, to voluntarily resign her post for reasons bordering on alleged corruption, indiscipline, incompetence and abuse of office.
“The pensioners association in the University of Nigeria Nsukka demand an inquiry into the administration of UNN’s pension funds.”
Okolo accused the bursar of unnecessary delay in the payment of monthly pensions, fraud in the 2011 biometric verification of pensioners which, he said, led to deceased and ghost pensioners being paid monthly pensions.
The chairman said the bursar failed to pay members of the association the arrears of Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Scale, among other allegations.
He warned that the association would write to the National Assembly, the EFCC and ICPC to look into the administration of pension funds in the university if Obi refused to heed the warning.