NRC Assures Railway Pensioners Improved Welfare

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Adeseyi Sijuwade, on Tuesday assured the company’s pensioners improved welfare packages.
This is contained in a statement issued by the Assistant Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Railways Workers, Mr Timothy Esan.
Mr. Sijuwade gave the assurance while addressing the pensioners at Ebute Metta, during a week-long nationwide verification of pensioners which started on Monday.
“The welfare and well being of our pensioners will receive a boost through enhanced pension rates as all the recommendations made by the Ministerial Committee on Pension Rate Increase are receiving attention.
“And very soon, monthly pensions of our pensioners will be scaled up.
According to him, “Having worked for the corporation for many eventful years of your life and now that you are senior citizens, you deserve nothing less than a retired life of bliss and plenty.
“As you come out to participate in the 2014 verification exercise, I share in your joy of having another opportunity in the land of the living to visit your former place of work.
“I am sure that some great and nostalgic thoughts of yester-years will be running through your hearts as you come into the warmth and beauty of a new Nigerian Railway.
“I must thank you for serving the corporation so dutifully well to the end and for sustaining it for my generation to meet to work in.” he stated.
The statement said that the management and the workers were determined to do their best and to leave a better railway for the generation coming behind.
It added that the Federal Government had been supportive with constant provision of funds with which the payment of pension benefits to the pensioners had been sustained.
The statement added that the General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Mr Rafiu Balogun, said the pensioners shared the view of the railway management on the verification.
“This exercise will go a long way to justify and sustain our persistent claim that there are no ghost pensioners in the NRC. “It is the tradition of the pensioners’ union to collaborate with the management in lobbying for funds to offset genuine clams and entitlements of the pensioners.
“We cannot afford to allow such money to go into wrong hands.
“Our Union is proud to be associated with a management that does not tamper with or mismanage pension funds,” it said.