KWSG owing us N1.6bn - Pensioners

Date: 2017-09-18

The Concerned Pensioners of Kwara State has said the state government has been owing pensioners arrears of pension and gratuity since 2006.

The group said the government was challenged in 2008 at the High Court in Ilorin after which 50 percent of N3.3 billion owed was paid while the balance has remained unpaid.

Secretary of the group Comrade Ayodele Ajibola ıtold our correspondent, "After the payment of the 50 percent, we were shocked to hear from the media that the state government declared it would use the balance for infrastructural development."

On pension payment in recent times, Ajibola said the government was not owing them because some of them were collecting as low as N2,850 monthly as the state government refused to implement the N18,000 minimum wage, alleging that Kwara pensioners were the lowest paid.

Reacting, the state government said through the Senior Special Assistant to the state governor, Dr Muideen Akorede, that the government only owed some arrears of gratuity of pensioners.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Jumoke Gafar     Alao Ayotunde     Facebook     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Usman Alkali Baba     Okin High School     Ishola Abdullahi     SUBEB     Laduba     Modibo Kawu     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Oyin-Zubair     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     UNIFEMGA     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     NITDA     Suleiman Mora Omar     Tsaragi-Share     ER-KANG Mining     Kwara Basketball Association     Henry Makinwa     Yomi Ogunsola     Minister     Bola Magaji     Gwanara     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Rachael Obisesan     AbdulGafar Tosho     Park     Folaranmi Aro     BECE     Saheed Akinwumi     Rueben Parejo     ENetSuD     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     MMWG     Emir Of Kano     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Solomon Edojah     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Nigerian Army     Babaita     COVID-19 Palliatives     Sheriff Shagaya     Ayinde Oyepitan     Kazeem Gbolagade     Sunday Popo-Ola     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Belgore     Akeem Lawal     TIIDELab     Peculiar Allowance     Alapansapa     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     NFAI     National Broadcasting Commission     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Radio SBS     Noah Yusuf     University Road     Omotoso     Bolaji Aladie     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     ASUU     Ubandawaki     Cornelius Adebayo     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Chief Of Staff     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Adijat Adebiyi     Obayomi Azeez     Agbarigidoma     Isiaka Danmeromu     Omu Aran     Yakub Lai Gobir    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

HYPPADEC     Abubakar Baba     Usman Alkali Baba     Ike Ekweremadu     Pius Abioje     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Arinola Lawal     Abubakar Atiku     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Moremi High School     Olupako Of Share     Oke Sunna     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Olatunde Michaels     Ajeigbe     Pategi     Biliaminu Aliu     Akanbi-Oke     Ibrahim Oniye     Shettima     Eruku     LABTOP     Bayo Ojo     Ijagbo     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Sobi FM     Ilesha-Gwanara     Oluranti Idowu     Sabo-Oke     Oladimeji Thompson     CUTI     Nigerian Army     Muhammed Akanbi     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Halimah Perogi     Ayo Opadokun     Sheikh Alimi     Sarkin Malamai     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Igosun     Gbenga Olawepo     MATTA Girls Foundation     Offorjama     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Yekini Adio     08001000100     IYA YUSUF     Ibrahim Labaika     Saidu Yaro Musa     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Boko Haram     Olusegun Adeniyi     Kayode Ishola     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     N-Power     Mustapha Olanipekun     Ebola     Idofin     Saba Mamman Daniel     Aremu Odolaye     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Awili Pedro     Ashiru     2023 Elections     Share/Tsaragi     Kale Ayo     Code Of Conduct     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Sebastine Obasi     Goodluck Jonathan     Overland     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege