Taraba pensioners commend Governor Kefas for issuing Executive Order for immediate payment of retirees’ entitlements

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By Yusuf Salihu Sansani, Jalingo

Pensioners in Taraba State have commended the State Governor Dr. Agbu Kefas for issuing an Executive Order for immediate payment of pension, gratuity and all other entitlements of retirees in the state.

Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) Taraba State Council, Comrade El-Nathan Auta Bila made the commendation while interacting with journalists in Jalingo, the State Capital.

Comrade Bila said the implementation of the Executive Order will not only cushion the hardships and challenges faced by Pensioners in Taraba State since it’s creation in 1991 but will bring succur and smiles on the faces of retirees who have been living in abject poverty as a result of non payment of their retirement benefits several years after leaving service honourably.

“If Governor Agbu Kefas implements the Executive Order on the immediate commencement and completion of payment of outstanding pension, gratuities and related entitlements for actual Pensioners in Taraba State he will go down as the first Governor in the history of Taraba State to have held the bull by the horn in solving the myriads of challenges facing Pensioners for decades in the State,” he said.

The NUP Chairman explained that since the creation of Taraba State in 1999, no increment was made in the pension of retirees, the N18, 000, N30,000 and the recently N70,000 salary increment made to civil servants which suppose to have carried pensioners along threw them by the way side and advice Governor Kefas to implement all the increments made to civil servants in the state to pensioners at once to make them have a sense of belonging.

He said Governor Kefas should not only settle the outstanding pension, gratuities and all other entitlements as contained in the Executive Order but also pay these entitlements with all the Minimum wages increments that were paid to civil servants.