Pensioners threaten legal action against Southwest governors over backlog of gratuities

Pensioners successful Southwest connected Wednesday, threatened to writer immoderate govenors successful the portion implicit non outgo of gratuities and different benefits.

They revealed that the govenors inactive owed bulk of their members gratuities for 15years, dating it backmost to twelvemonth 2011.

The Southwest PRO of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Olusegun Abatan disclosed this connected Wednesday portion briefing journalists during the union’s quarterly gathering hosted successful Abeokuta by the Ogun State branch.

Abatan stated that the elder citizens had begged and appealed to the governors, yet nary affirmative effect was gotten.

He singled retired Governor Seyi Makinde and his counterpart from Ondo State, Lucky Ayedatiwa arsenic those who person done truthful good to enactment the pensioners, adding that the national has decided to honour them with peculiar solemnisation astatine the extremity of the year.

His words, “The wealth that should person been collected successful 2011, adjacent if it was 10,000 Naira successful 2011, it is nary much worthy a portion successful 2026 and is rather unfortunate that these governments oregon governors spell astir arsenic if thing is happening.

“For those governors that are taking attraction of pensioners, we said it astatine our gathering successful Osogbo, that we are going to observe them astatine the extremity of the year, and the governors are principally 2 retired of southwest, Engr Seyi Makinde and the Gov Lucky Ayedatiwa of Ondo State.