Federal pensioners underneath the Contributory Pension Scheme have written to the coordinating Minister of Finance and Nationwide Economic system, Wale Edun, on the necessity for the federal government to launch the accrued gratuities owed pensioners from March 2023 to November 2024.
The pensioners, who had earlier staged a peaceable rally on the Ministry of Finance on November 12, 2024, expressed appreciation for the minister’s “mature and civilised“ dealing with of their grievances. Nonetheless, they lamented that regardless of guarantees, their pensions remained unpaid.
The pensioners are demanding the instant launch of the excellent 21 months of accrued rights to retired public staff from March 2023 to November 2024.
They’re additionally searching for cost of unpaid pension increments, together with a 15 per cent enhance in 2007, a 33 per cent enhance in 2010, and a 20 – 28 per cent enhance in 2024.
They referred to as on the Federal Authorities to declare a state of emergency within the CPS sector and take instant steps to clear all authorities liabilities earlier than December 16, 2024.
The pensioners’ union management acknowledged that that they had the mandate of their members nationwide to take this motion, and they’d not again down till their calls for had been met.
“From 12 pm on the sixteenth of December, 2024 all CPS retirees nationwide will make the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Workplace of the Accountant Basic of the Federation at Abuja their houses till the federal government is able to meet their calls for.
“We name on the Federal Authorities of Nigeria to declare a state of emergency within the Contributory Pension Scheme and to take instant steps to clear all authorities’s liabilities on this sector earlier than sixteenth December, 2024, if the Federal Authorities wouldn’t need the entire world to look at Nigerian retired senior residents underneath the Contributory Pension Scheme to show the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Workplace of the Accountant Basic of the Federation at Abuja as their houses till the federal government is able to meet their calls for.
“Our primary calls for embrace: instant launch of all of the excellent 21 months of accrued rights to retired public staff from March 2023 to November 2024; funds of all of the unpaid pension increments; 15 per cent pension enhance in 2007; 33 per cent pension enhance in 2010; Consequential pension adjustment in 2019 following the rise within the nationwide minimal wage and 20 per cent to twenty-eight per cent pension enhance in 2024.”