Governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia. Credit: Benue State House
Pensioners under the auspices of the Concerned Pensioners Association, Benue State chapter, on Wednesday defied a heavy downpour to protest the non-payment of outstanding gratuities stretching back to the year 2000.
The Concerned Pensioners Association, Benue State, is a splinter group of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners registered in 2022.
The pensioners, who marched in the rain along Naka Road, carried placards with various inscriptions such as: “Your Excellency, you have buried pensioners for paying gratuities during your time, June 2023 to date,” and “Gov. Alia pay us 38–62 months pension arrears, 25 years gratuities, harmonisation.”
Another read, “Your Excellency, pensioners are dying, pay our arrears and entitlements.”
