Controversy: Read What Unpaid Pensioners Did

Controversies are reportedly trailing the last payment of pensioners in Imo State despite the kudos that greeted the verification and payment for 2 months.

The majority of the unpaid pensioners in Imo were physically seen in front of the Accountant General’s office on Wednesday morning lamenting their ordeal.

The crying pensioners said they were short paid adding that the state government did not handle the payment and verification exercise properly.

According to them, there seems to be confusion in some places over the pension issue.

It was gathered that some were not paid at all while others received just one month instead of 2 months as promised.

It was also reported that some at lower grade levels received bigger amount than senior pensioners. One of the retired workers who spoke under strict anonymity with reporter complained that instead of him receiving N20,000 as supposed, he got less than N10,000.

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The confusion as we learnt may have come from the adhoc workers who were recruited to handle the computer job during the exercise. Our source hinted that the newly recruited workers may not have been able to discharge their duties effectively. Moreover, the computers they used were not in order as we were told.

It was observed that the government got complaints from the aggrieved pensioners to fill and explain how they were shortchanged.