Don’t Resort to Civil Unrest, Osun Urges Pensioners

The Osun State Government has appealed to its protesting pensioners to be a little more patient with it and not resort to civil unrest, because it was doing everything to review their demands, which was tabled at a meeting some 10 days ago.

She claimed since the administration was inaugurated in 2018, it has never defaulted in the payment of pensions and gratuities, including those of contributory pensioners, just as it was gradually clearing the backlog it inherited. Both parties had agreed at that meeting to reconvene on November 29, to present government position and chart a way forward so as to continue to guarantee industrial peace in the state,

“Since we came in, in 2018, we have paid salaries and pensions as and when due and we are steadily reducing even the arrears we inherited from the previous administration.

Try paying them what they are owed

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