Pensioners Task Oyo Govt On Arrears

The Nigeria Union
of Pensioners (NUP), Oyo State chapter, has tasked the state government on the payment of their accumulated gratuities and pension arrears especially of the retired primary school teachers.
Speaking to newsmen in Ibadan last Wednesday, Chairman of the union, Comrade Akinsola Tijani, said Oyo State government owed retired primary school teachers a minimum of 13 months pension arrears, stressing that their last arrear was paid in January 2014.
The union’s chairman said that irregularities in the payment of monthly pensions have made life unbearable to the pensioners and called on the government to streamline the process of the pension payments in order to avoid a situation where some were to receive 22 months arrears, others were under the categories of 20 months, 15 months and 13 months pension arrears.
He said such a situation was unpalatable to the union stressing that several meetings with the state government representatives had been held where assurances of payment of pensions and gratuities were made yet no fulfillment of such assurances.
The union boss bemoaned the flight of the retired primary school teachers need attention.