No fewer than 2,000 pensioners in Kwara State died while pursuing the payment of their 11 months pensions.
The state Chairman of the NUP, Alhaji Saidu Oladimeji, who disclosed this, said retired local government workers, primary school teachers and retirees in the state Universal Basic Education Board were being owed 11 months pensions arrears.
“The previous government was paying the pensioners on a percentage basis. Although the present administration led by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has been paying pension regularly since he came to power, but it has yet to pay the arrears of pensions owed by its predecessor. Over 2000 pensioners have died in the state because of non-payment of their pensions not by this administration but by the former government”, he stressed.
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