Starvation, disease killing pensioners in Imo – NUP By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI — The Chairman, Association of Retired Permanent Secretaries of Imo State, Chief Hyacinth Onyekwere, has cried out for help, as hunger and disease is depleting their ranks

Chief Onyekwere, who made the lamentation while addressing the press yesterday in Owerri, also disclosed that “from November 2011 till date, 12 retired permanent secretaries have died as a result of non-payment of their stipends to enable them feed and buy their medications.”
He expressed shock at the way “the state government is intentionally dehumanizing retired civil servants by refusing to pay them their pensions.”
Onyekwere recalled with grief that only a paltry fraction of a month’s pensioners entitlement was recently paid, out of between 16 to 70 months owed different categories of pensioners.
On the use of traditional rulers in the administration of pension matters, Onyekwere regretted that Sub Treasurers who possess the expertise have been relegated to the background.
Contributing also, the State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, Chief Gideon Ezeji, fumed that over 30 percent of pensioners were omitted during the last payment exercise.
“As at October 2016, the state government is owing civil service pensioners 20 months pension, retired permanent secretaries 20 months, retired primary school teachers 30 months and retired local government pensioners 21 months,” Ezeji said.
Continuing, Chief Ezeji said that Imo Broadcasting Corporation pensioners are owed 40 months and Alvan Ikoku College of Education 75 months, before it was taken over by the Federal Government.
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Culled from Nigeria Today

Ex-police pensions boss steals N24bn, buys 22 houses Akinyemi Akinrujomu Yesterday 23262 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Send email – Ex-director of Police Pensions Esai Dangabar has been accused of buying 22 houses from N24bn stolen from the pension funds – EFCC investigator and witness at the court Mustapha Gadanya said the commission has traced how moneys were moved in accounts Share on Facebook Share on Twitter police pension Men of the Nigerian Police Force An witness has told a high court in Abuja that former director of Police Pensions Esai Dangabar moved N24bn into different accounts and bought 22 houses in the Federal Capital Territory alone. The witness, Mustapha Gadanya, who was presented at the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the case against Dangabar, said investigations showed that N320m was deposited in Skye Bank between May 2008 and July 2009 for his companies, Marine Logistics and leisure Integrated Ltd. READ ALSO: Deputy governor robbed at gunpoint by his own bodyguard Gadanya is one of the investigators in the case against Dangabar, Atiku Kigo, Ahmed Wada, Veronica Onyegbula, Sani Zira, Uzoma Attang and Christian Madubuke that are standing trial for complicity in the over N24bn scam in the police pension office. Punch quoted News Agency of Nigeria as reporting that that between February 2009 and June 2010, the manager of a bank in Jabi helped the Dangabar to launder about N840m. READ ALSO: Arrested Judges in BIG trouble as Nigerians flood SSS with petitions against them He also revealed that Dangarbar owns 16 duplexes at Wuyi District and six flats at Efab in Abuja. The properties he said had been forfeited temporarily to the Federal Government. The judge, Justice Husseni Baba-Yusuf, adjourned the trial till Thursday (today) for continuation of hearing. Meanwhile, the Acting director general/executive secretary of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate Murtala M.O has cautioned pensioners on the activities of fraudsters who contact pensioners claiming to facilitate the payment of their pensions for a fee. He made the remark while commenting about the gains of the First National Retreat on Pension Administration in Nigeria, organized by the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service in July, 2016.
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