Pensioners Demand Payment Of Entitlements

The Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) has pleaded with the Federal Government to pay its members’ entitlements.

The Secretary of the Anambra chapter of the union, Mr Richards Ndubude, made the plea while speaking with newsmen in Amawbia, Anambra State.

He appealed to the government to save them from untold hardships, saying that they expected the government to honour its earlier agreement with them.

Ndubude said the union was happy with the intervention of the president on the suspended national demonstration in Abuja, and recalled that a re-validation exercise was conducted in all zonal offices between August 2012 and April 2013 and that deceased federal pensioners in the states had been eliminated.

He also said that the president had approved the demands and directed the head of service of the federation to work toward the demands.

“It is our hope that in line with these developments, the federal government will pay and save us from further hardship. “We are still waiting for the arrears of 12.5 per cent and 15 per cent that had not been paid.”

Ndubude urged the government to tackle corruption in the pension sub-sector.