Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Friday met with protesting pensioners in the state, promising to release funds to complete the payment of their pensions.
Despite a series of appeal by government officials to stop the protest and return to their homes, the pensioners had two nights at the gate to Government House. “In last year’s budget, we proposed to raise N40b through bond and we had also set up a committee on the introduction of PENCOM. However, the State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Mr Joseph Kume, brought a twist to the protest.
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