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Ihedioha to pay pension arrears in Imo
Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has assured pensioners in the state of his administration’s preparedness to commence payment of their pension areas.
He stated this on Saturday at a stakeholders’ meeting with members of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, (NUP) and the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Owerri, the state capital.
The governor said the verification exercise to ascertain the actual number of pensioners and amount to be paid to them has been completed.
He added that the consultant hired by the government to handle the exercise had told him that integration of the collated data with the banks would be completed between Monday and Tuesday, while the report would be presented and ratified at the state Executive Council Meeting on Wednesday.
“Thereafter, the alert will start hitting your phones,” he told the pensioners.
According to Governor Ihedioha, his administration has set aside N822 million, based on the computed figures for the payment of the pensions.
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The NUP had in August claimed that they were owed 80 months’ pension arrears by the state government.
The secretary of the Imo State chapter of the NUP, Livinus Ashiegbu, who spoke on behalf of the retirees on an Owerri-based private radio station, Hot FM, discussion programme, had claimed that data record obtained by them showed that more than 100 of their members had died without receiving their pensions.
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