Economy

Kwara Govt Halts Pensions of 6,437 Retirees

By Web News 551

The Kwara State Government has said that it has temporarily suspended the payment of monthly salary pension to 6,437 retired workers in the state with effect from July 2022 following their inability to complete a verification exercise organised for pensioners in the state.

The government, in a press statement titled “Kwara State Government Receives Interim Report On Pensioners’ Verification,” issued in Ilorin on Saturday, said that the retirees failed to submit their documents to a screening committee constituted for the exercise.

In the statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary in the office of the state Head of Service, Murtala Atoyebi, the government said that out of a total of 16,368 pensioners in the state, only 9,931 pensioners were verified by the committee.   

It said, “The Kwara State Government has received an interim report on the verification exercise on the state pensioners. 

“The state government contracted a financial consortium in December last year to carry out a verification exercise on the state pensioners as a result of the precarious challenges inhibiting  the smooth payment of pensioners’ entitlement. 

“Consequently,  the government has directed the Office of the State Accountant General to suspend forthwith, payment to the affected pensioners effective from this month (July) until they are cleared. 

“The government advised all those with anomalies in their documentation to immediately clear such with the consultant while those that failed to appear for the verification exercise should go to the Staff Development College, Ilorin for screening, commencing from Monday, August 1, 2022,” the statement said.

Punch/Simeon Ugbodvon

Security

Kwara Govt. Alerts Public about Plot to Launch Violent Attacks

By Web News 779

Kwara State Government has raised an alarm over plots by some anarchists to launch violent attacks on public property in the state as part of their grand plans to destabilize the country to achieve sinister objectives.

This is contained in a  statement issued by Commissioner for Communications, Harriet Afolabi-Oshatimehin

The statement notes that the government is in possession of intelligence reports that some anarchists, backed by certain political interests, are planning to attack public facilities in the state especially the capital city Ilorin.

It says the state government is aware of the evil plan to attack the facilities where the palliatives recently donated by the Federal Government are being kept for further distribution to victims of the recent rainstorm.

It states that the state government has alerted the security agencies of the evil plots to attack public properties. 

The statement urges members of the public to be vigilant and not let down their guards.

 It urges members of the public to go about their lawful business without any fear.”

PFM