Following
the refusal of the state government to pay them their gratuities and
pensions, pensioners in Kwara state have started 7-day fasting and
prayer.
A pensioner faints during demonstration in Nigeria (File photo)
Pensioners from the 16 local governments in Kwara on Monday said
they had begun a seven-day fasting and prayers for God’s intervention
over unpaid N7bn gratuities and pension by the councils.
The Secretary of the Local Government Pensioners Association in
Kwara, Alhaji Saidu Oladimeji, said the over 6,000 pensioners had served
the 16 councils diligently and were being owed N5bbn gratuity and over
N2bn pension arrears.
The secretary said the essence of the seven days fasting and
prayers was to seek God’s favour for the settlement of their
entitlements.
Oladimeji, who said the exercise was voluntary, added that majority of the pensioners were now septuagenarians.
The secretary said since 2008, when the payments became epileptic, the association had lost 1,720 members across the areas.
One of the members of the association and former Secretary of the
state Universal Basic Education Board, Alhaji Zulu Umar, said that
several of his colleagues died without taking their gratuity.
He attributed their death to various ailments and inability to buy
drugs or access modern medical treatment following unpaid gratuities and
pensions.
Reacting to the fasting and prayers, the Chairman of the
Association of Local Government of Nigeria, Alhaji lsiaka Danmairomu,
described the exercise as the only solution.
Danmairomu attributed the non-payment of the backlog of gratuities
and pensions to the current economic recession which brought about
shortfall in monthly allocation to the councils.
The ALGON chairman urged the fasting-pensioners to use the period
to pray for the whole country, to overcome various challenges
confronting it.
The pensioners had, at a news conference on February 16 in llorin,
blamed the Kwara Government for allegedly being insensitive to their
plight.
-NAN
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