Pensioners in Kogi owed N19billion

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The Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) Kogi State Chapter has, disclosed that the State Government was owing its members the sum of N10 billion gratuity in arrears.
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The union also debunked the allegation that 225 members whose names were screened out by the Office of the State Accountant-General were ghost pensioners.

This was contained in a statement signed by the Chairman of the union, Chief Onu Abdullahi, a copy of which was made available to journalists in Lokoja, on Sunday, which stated that the Accountant General, Mr. Ibrahim Idakwo, had erred in the exercise because those he claimed to be ghost pensioners were real pensioners who were alive and known by their members.

Onu who berated the recent verification exercise carried out by a consulting firm, Remital, and further disclosed that the union had done a similar exercise before and it was more perfect than the recent one carried out by the government.

He explained that pensioners in the state had been thrown into hardship since the last three months due to the refusal by the Accountant General to release the monthly allocation of N50 million which was supposed to be used for the payment of gratuity for the retirees despite the directive from the governor.

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