BREAKING: Pensioners declare fasting, threaten protest in government office in Ogun
Pensioner and retired primary school teachers have declared three days fasting and vowed to stage a protest against the state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, for his alleged refusal to pay their gratuities.
Pensioner and retired primary school teachers have declared three days fasting and vowed to stage a protest against the state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, for his alleged refusal to pay their gratuities.
Moreso, the pensioners on the platform of the Local Government Pensioners Association said they would go to Abiodun’s office after the three days fasting that started on Thursday with their mats and turn the place to their homes during the protest.
They vowed that they would not leave the place until their gratuities were paid.
Speaking at a press briefing with newsmen, the Chairman of LOGPAN, Sikiru Ayilara, made the announcement
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He spoke in the presence of the members, said they were tired of writing letters after they had written about 12 without one getting a response.
The group lampooned Abiodun for “playing dangerously with the lives of the members” by refusing to pay their gratuities on time.
However, the association insisted that the quarterly payment of N500m by Abiodun, which by calculation would take 34 years to clear all the gratuities, was unacceptable.
Ayilara called for the review of the policy by voting N1bn monthly instead of payment of N500m quarterly.
“We are not going to curse, but every pronouncement, every covenant of God on anybody that is oppressing the poor, the needy, the widows, the aged and the orphans will be on anybody contributing to our oppression.”
“We are not going to give him any notice again. He will see us, with our mats, sleeping clothes; we will go to his office, let him kill us there. After all, many of us are dying now very silently.”
