When pensioners turned beggars over delayed payment of benefits | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

Most pensioners that worked for Lagos State government do not have a happy story to tell at the end of their service. After putting in between 24 and 35 years of work, the government’s failure to promptly pay their benefits has turned many of them into beggars. According to some retirees, they are forced to depend on family members and friends to survive.

Similalrly, Iyabo Oluyomi Giwa, who after 35 years in Lagos State employment, retired on October 16, 2018, said things have not been easy for her and the family. This is because her husband, who also retired as a principal in 2019, has not got his retirement benefits. She disclosed that her family has been living from hand to mouth. They are hoping and praying that their graduate children will get employment to provide succour, if the state government won’t pay their retirement benefits.

Mrs. Ogunkoya, a teacher, who retired in 2016, got her retirement benefits in 2019, but said the three years and two months wait was harrowing. Ogunkoya was bitter that despite waiting that long, she and her colleagues were still shortchanged. “The new pension scheme came and was embraced by Lagos Government and workers with the hope that solution was in sight. However, the programme started failing on arrival. Government was insincere with the full implementation of the scheme’s tenets, which it embraced since 2007.”

“It may interest you to know that presently, even with the terrible economic crunch in the country and in Lagos State in particular, the monthly stipend being paid retirees is not enough to pay a fraction of the bills, let alone feeding.

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