PTAD verifies retired Federal Perm Secs, embarks on mobile verification

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has embarked on a mini-verification exercise for retired Federal Permanent Secretaries under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS).

Executive Secretary of PTAD, Sharon Ikeazor, who flagged off the three-day exercise yesterday in Abuja at the Office of the Head of Civil Service (HOS), said it was an effort to continue the momentum of successful verification exercises.

Ikeazor said that she was there to monitor the efficacy of the exercise which involved capturing the data and biometrics of the retirees.

In his remarks, the secretary of the Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries (CORFEPS), Mr. Joseph Nwosu encouraged all their colleagues who are resident in Abuja to take advantage of the mini-verification.

Nwosu said “it is an opportunity to be captured and complete the process once and for all,” adding that those who are not physically fit, should provide PTAD with a list to reach out to them in their homes and hospitals to conduct a mobile verification.
The exercise, it was a reunion for the former top bureaucrats while the PTAD Executive Secretary shared a lively time with them.

Meanwhile, PTAD has embarked on another mobile verification of 77 pensioners who were not captured during the main verification exercises in some geo-political zones.

The Directorate has delegated six staff to move to Edo, Delta, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, Imo, Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States where they will spend 20 days on the field.

According to the directorate, “the exercise will capture pensioners who are either too ill or aged to leave their immediate environment and invigorate PTAD’s primary objective of ensuring stress-free accessibility to all categories of pensioners under the DBS. The Pensioners will be brought back to the payroll, many of whom were removed due to being incapacitated to attend the earlier exercises.”