Gov Uzodimma makes part-payment to Imo pensioners

Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma has made part-payment to the state’s pensioners.

Daily Times recalls that the pensioners protested in July over failure of the Imo State Government to pay their five-month pension arrears.

Reports also sprouted that the pensioners were allegedly flogged at the state’s government house during the course of the protest.

However, the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) factional leader in Imo State, Iyke Ohaneje confirmed some pensioners have received their money on Tuesday, August 18.

Advertisement

READ ALSO Angry Imo pensioners protest over unpaid pension arrears

Ohaneje, who chairs the Pension Intervention Committee (PIC), made the confirmation to members at the Freedom Square in Owerri.

He assured those who had not got theirs that the government would pay.

He said: “Some of us have not been paid because the state is going by automation and not biometric. Automation is fluctuating and it is slow, while in biometric everybody would be captured at the same time.

Advertisement

“Some of our members have been paid four months, three months and some have not been paid, but we would continue to pressure the government…”

Ohaneje insisted his faction would not accept the automation system of payment because ‘it is not capturing all of us at the same time’.

One of the pensioners, Charles Amadi who spoke to the Nation, said he only got one month pay.