Some public service retirees have rejected
\nthe call for the Federal Government to increase the retirement age of civil
\nservants.<\/p>\n
Civil servants had begun to yearn for an
\nincrease in their retirement age after the Senate passed a bill to extend the
\nretirement age of professors in Nigerian universities to 70 years.<\/p>\n
The Senate also upped the pensionable age
\nof other academic and non-academic staff of universities to 65 years.<\/p>\n
Mr
\nChukwura Onu, a retiree and secretary, Federal Civil Service Pensioners,
\nsaid in Lagos that the nation\u2019s poor economy would not allow any civil
\nservant to stay beyond 60 years.<\/p>\n
He discouraged workers still in the service
\nfrom staying beyond 60 years so that they could retire well and continue to
\nlive healthily.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can anybody want to stay in the Public
\nService beyond 60 years? The infrastructure are not there and there are no jobs
\nfor the youth. \u201cWe need to leave so that younger ones can get jobs,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Sunday Job, another retiree, said that
\nthe retirement age of 60 was good and should not be extended to allow workers
\nwho had served long to retire in good health.<\/p>\n
He said that retirees should rather desire
\nearly payment of pensions by government and ensure that favourable policies
\nthat would benefit them after retirement were made.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the money is small and it is received
\nas at when due, a person can live on it after retirement. But today many
\npensioners die in the process of trying to get their pensions,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Monday Igho, another civil servant who
\nhas two months before retiring, said that people wanted to stay on because of
\nthe poor state of the economy.<\/p>\n
He said that if the government created an
\nenabling environment,\u00a0\u00a0by providing electricity, housing, water, good
\nroads and accessibility to basic needs, many people would retire voluntarily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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