- Some pensioners in Imo state on Thursday, January 6, said the state has accumulated a backlog of 77 months pension debt
- The pensioners said their were being owed between 22 and 77 months arrears by the Imo state government
- The urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call the state governor Rochas Okorocha to order
The pensioners said they were being owed between 22 and 77 months arrears
The pension in a protest said decried the nonchalant attitude of the state governor Rochas Okorocha over their plight.
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Speaking on the matter, Gideon Ezeji, chairman of the Imo state pensioners called on Okorocha to clear the debt owed his colleagues.
Ezeji said some of the pensioners were being owed debts between 22 and 77 months.
He also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Imo state governor to order on the matter.
“He behaves disrespectfully and treats senior citizens in the state with deplorably.”
Ezeji also accused Okorocha of deriving joy in the pain the elderly face in the state.
“What did Okorocha do with the bailout fund that President Buhari gave to him? We are protesting for the third time.” he said.
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He also described Okorocha as being wicked for planning to pay only 40% of the accumulated pensions and gratuity.
“We say no to this latest government plan to deny us the payment of 60 percent of arrears up to December.” Ezeji said.
“As at December 2016, the state is owing Imo pensioners between 22 months and 77 months arrears. Our gratuities have remained unpaid since 1998 till date.
“Also, the government has refused to harmonize our pensions since 2000 to date. All the efforts by the union overseeing the welfare of pensioners have not yielded any fruit.”
But reacting to the allegations of the pensioners, the Imo state government said the issue of pension in the state has been resolved.
The state government also said the complainants who protested were not pensioners.
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