Pensioners across the southwest geo-political zones have lamented that five out of six State governments in the zone are owing them over two hundred and forty two billion naira in gratuities and pensions.
The retirees under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) who gathered in Akure, the Ondo State capital, berated the state governors except Lagos state government for abandoning them to suffer on daily basis as a result of unpaid entitlements
The senior citizens who spoke through the NUP Southwest Zonal Public Relations Officer and Oyo Stare Secretary of the Union, Comrade Olusegun Abatan, said despite allowing pensioners in their states to live in penury, some of the governors went ahead to obtain party nomination forms running to millions of naira.
The pensioners also frowned at the manner at which the national leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had left the retirees to wallow in poverty after serving the nation diligently, advising the two labour unions to declare industrial disputes in states where pensioners were being owed.
On the 2023 general election, the pensioners charged their members across the southwest zone not to vote for politicians who do not cater for them.
Leke Adegbite
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