Cross River retirees lament N4,000 monthly pension, demand unpaid gratuities

Retirees successful Cross River State are receiving arsenic small arsenic N4,000 successful monthly pensions, with their relation appealing for urgent involution to code unpaid gratuities and harmonise pension payments.

The Chairman of the Cross River State section of the National Association of Retirees of State Government of Nigeria (NARSGON), Comrade Daniel Bassey Effiom, made the entreaty successful a connection to the authorities Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Christopher Etta.

Effiom urged Etta to prevail connected Governor Bassey Otu to urgently merchandise outstanding gratuities and code the disparity successful pension payments crossed the state.

He lamented that galore retirees were struggling to past connected monthly pensions of N4,000, N5,000 and N6,000.

“Our members are truly suffering successful Cross River State. Some are earning N4,000, N5,000, N6,000, etc., arsenic monthly pensions.

“What tin specified monies bash for a surviving quality being? There’s truthful overmuch hunger and sickness. And galore are dying undeserved deaths each day,” helium said.

According to him, immoderate retirees person died due to the fact that they could not spend drugs and different basal necessities, portion others proceed to hold for their entitlements.

“We request our entitlements urgently, please,” Effiom appealed, stressing that retirees should not beryllium treated arsenic “spent forces” due to the fact that they remained applicable to the state.

He said...