By Rotimi Famakin
Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria Pensioners Association, Ibadan branch, has called on the federal government to pay their minimum wage arrears.
The pensioners, led by the Chairman, Mr Sola Ogunsola, stated this while staging a peaceful protest at the Broadcasting House, FRCN, Dugbe, Ibadan.
The pensioners carried placards with different inscriptions such as “enough audio promises”, “please resolve the issue of our diaspora pensioners”, “pay our entitlements”, “we are still feeding our graduate children”, among others.
Speaking during the protest, Mr Ogunsola lamented that despite the announcement by the federal government of a thirty-two thousand naira pension increment nine months ago, they have not been paid to date
The most recent in the series of unmerited assaults to our psyche as DBS pensioners is the non-implementation till this moment of the N32,000 added across board to pensioners’ monthly dues based on the new minimum wage of N70,000, which President Tinubu, again, announced to take effect from 29th July, 2024.”
The FRCN pensioners chairman maintained that most of their members were sick due to financial constraint, while their children, who had graduated, could not secure jobs to take care of them.
Mr Ogunsola said their counterparts in some Ministries, Departments and Agencies had received their minimum wage arrears, adding that excuses given for the delay were unacceptable to his members.
Our correspondent reports that the pensioner also took the protest to the Secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, to register their grievances.
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