NTA Retirees Protest Non-Payment Of Pension & Gratuities.

Retirees of the Nigerian Television Authority have lamented the non-payment of about 15 months pension arrears by the federal government. The pensioners, who stormed the Ogun state secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta on Thursday, lamented that their situation has become worrisome and unbearable.

They complained that many of them, numbering about 2,000, have not been paid and the federal institutions responsible are unconcerned. Speaking on behalf of the pensioners, the national president of NTA contributory pensioners’ association, Kayode Da-Silva decried the ‘inhuman and inconsiderate’ actions of the federal government over the payment of their gratuities.

Da-Silva said there is no appreciable improvement from the government, despite having various deliberations with them. He also lamented that some of the federal contributory pensioners still earn less than N10,000 monthly. He said, “we find it necessary to intimate the federal government and the general public with the realities of our time. We cannot continue to suffer in silence.