OGUN PAYS N1.7 TO ANOTHER BATCH OF PENSIONERS
Omooba Risawe
Ogun State Government has released the sum of N1.7BN for the payment of gratuities to another batch of 685 pensioners in the State.
The Head of Service,Abayomi Sobande who announced this, explained that,the payment was part of the N6 billion released in December by the state
government from the Paris Club refund which was meant for the payment of gratuities for 2,429 retirees from November 2012 till January 2014.
He added further that,the payment was in fulfilment of government’s promise to continue the payment of outstanding gratuities in batches as it was now the turn of retirees that were grouped into the batch
from January to June 2013.
Sobande while addressing the beneficiaries at the Arcade Ground in Oke-Mosan,Abeokuta commended
the retirees for their patience and understanding which culminated into the resolve by government to give what was due to them.
The Head of Service pointed out that government was concerned with the comfort and welfare of the retired civil servants despite the economic situation
in the country.
He,however,pleaded with those that have not been paid to exercise patience explaining that the payment was done in batches, with assurance that government would not relent in giving them their entitlement.
In his own remark,Permanent Secretary, Bureau of State Pensions Board, Babatunde Agbaje assured the beneficiaries that cheques for all those that
retired from January to June 2013 were ready for collection enjoining
them to be orderly.
Meanwhile, it would be recalled that the government had earlier disbursed the sum of N1.5bn to the first batch of retirees between July to December, 2012.
