Several years after the PRA 2014 was introduced, many state governments are yet to implement it, thereby creating problems for their retired employees,The adage that rest is sweet after labour may after all not hold for employees of most state and local governments.
According to the Director, Centre for Pension Rights Advocacy, Ivor Takor, in a paper entitled: “State governments and the pension rights of their employees”, the exclusion was not an oversight by the First National Assembly Committee on Pension, that carried out the reform but a ploy by governors during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration to avoid paying pension.
He explained that the flagship states have adopted the Contributory Pension Scheme and are fully complying with their laws; hibernating states have stopped at enacting laws while the most dangerous ones; the red flag states don’t intend to do anything about pension laws.He listed the red flag states as Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Borno, Cross River, Katsina, Kwara, Plateau and Yobe.
He said steps had been taken to remove the lacuna in the law by the National Pension Commission in the Pension Reform Act 2014. He warned that governors who failed to implement the CPS would make their workers retire into penury and unrest.
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