24 college workers lament unpaid pension 2 years after retirement

TWENTY-FOUR retirees of the College of Education, Akwanga (COE) have raised the alarm over their alleged exclusion from the institution’s pension scheme, two years after retirement.

The chairman of the college’s chapter of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Patrick Oyunu, stated this on Thursday while presenting a memorandum to the fact finding committee set up by the state government to ascertain the modus operandi of the college from 2014 to October 2017.

“Our salaries were stopped since 2015 immediately we were retired from service, but they failed to place us on pension,” he said.

He also explained that the gratuity of staff of the institution who died in active service had still not been paid.

According to him, apart from the 24 members of staff, there are other pensioners who retired earlier before 2015 and are yet to be paid their gratuity.

He, therefore, appealed to the state government to increase the monthly allocations to the college to enable the management offset all outstanding pensions.