Pensioners in Delta State have alleged a N8 million fraud in the payment of their retirement benefits. The retired local government workers and public primary school teachers in Ughelli claimed that N2 million to N8 million each has been fraudulently deducted from their gratuities and asked on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to intervene....READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
The senior citizens accused government officials of conspiring with the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) to deduct their money. The crisis is unconnected with the N40 billion loan facility that was facilitated last year by the state government for the association to offset retirees’ entitlements.
However, ALGON Chairman Victor Ebonka denied the allegations. But the retirees in their letter by Daniel Onosanimoni, Gordon Etuwede Godwin Ekeleni and John Egie to the governor, vowed to fight with the last drop of their blood for a refund.
The group said: “Rather than use a payment template prepared by the consulting firm, B.A. Adigun & Associates, which was universally accepted and had been used for payment of pensions and gratuities since April 2011 to October 2019 (for local government workers) and 2011 to June 2016 (for public primary school teachers) without any hiccup, ALGON in connivance with the AuditorGeneral engaged the services of Logic Forensic Consultant to tinker with the old payment template resulting in humongous deductions from their gratuities and consequently inflicting severe pains and hardship on us, the pensioners.”
