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Hundreds of retirees of the Edo State Civil Service person protested their continued enrolment successful the Contributory Pension Scheme, describing it arsenic retrogressive alternatively than progressive.
DAILY POST reports that the protesters, who stormed the premises of the Edo State House of Assembly connected Tuesday, August 18, 2026, demanded a instrumentality to the Defined Benefit Scheme.
The spokesperson of the protesters, Mr Andrew Asemota, said they were employed erstwhile Edo State was inactive portion of the aged Bendel State and questioned wherefore they should beryllium included successful the Contributory Pension Scheme.
According to him, the retirees are going done excruciating pains and had travel to the Assembly to question its intervention.
“We are retirees nether the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, successful Edo State. We came present to registry our grievances, the excruciating pains we are going through.
“It was Governor Obaseki that pushed america into this Contributory Pension Scheme. We were employed erstwhile the authorities was Bendel State. And we ne'er signed immoderate contracts that successful the mediate of the crippled we volition beryllium pushed to this Contributory Pension Scheme.
“As we speak, we are passing done excruciating pains. We came present that the House of Assembly should assistance america to spot that we are moved distant from CPS to the Defined Benefit Scheme, which is the aged scheme.
“Some clip ago, we wrote a missive to t...
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