Pay Our Four-year Pending Gratuities, Pensioners Beg Wike

Pensioners in Rivers State have appealed to Governor Nyesom Wike to pay their four years pension arrears and gratuities to “help change our pitiable living conditions”.

The pensioners, in a statement made available to WHISTLER through their spokesman, Lucky Ati, regretted that some of them had not received any kobo from the state government since 2015.

“We have written several letters to Governor Nyesom Wike to no avail,” the pensioners wrote.

“The administration preceding Wike enacted the contributory pension without preparations and plans for a smooth take-off; this has caused us untold hardship and even deaths,” they said.

The group, however, thanked Wike for repealing the pension law but pleaded with him to come to their aid by paying the arrears.