RE: PENSION AND DILEMMA OF RETIREES

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Dear Yashuaib

We can only pray and hope this will be the last and ultimate option for the better welfare of pensioners. Nobody in his right sense would wish to be a civil servant in Nigeria with the peanut salaries and ridiculous condition of service and failure to pay their due after retirement. I believe with the way the new body PENCOM is going there is hope for our fathers, grandfather who worked in government and future retirees desirous of working for government as public servants. It is also interesting to learn that private sector, especially multinational companies are also patronizing the service offered by PENCOM. it is quit promising. But don't ask me if I may join the service in Nigeria. For now No way! Until after some years.

Festus Okon

festusokon2000@yahoo.com

What about the thieves (managers of funds) that pay these funds meant for the retirees into their personal bank accounts to generate millions of Naira in interest while the real owners -the intended recipients (retirees) wait for months before they get their money credited to their account....( sometimes it requires 3-6 months for funds that has already been released by the government to reach these retirees-the real owners) I think NH Ribadu needs to look into this as a matter of urgency) I know it happens because I know someone that is a victim of this fraud called 419). - It happens everyday in Nigeria and even more so now since the ghost workers syndrome is now in check due to the computerization and the annual physical identification process of the retirees. The managers of this retirement program in connivance with some politicians have resorted to depriving these retirees of their earnest entitlements at the right time while the thieves reap the interest on the payments. Nothing is promising here until you completely remove the crooks who are nothing but COGS in the wheel of progress in Nigeria. Surely and slowly they shall be revealed and eliminated from the line so that they may stop inflicting pain and suffering to the families of those who served their fatherland honorably. First it was ghost workers and now it is deprivation of the true owners of their entitlements while the crooks illegally enrich themselves through the backdoor interest collection. Stop these bastards before they get caught in their own tsunami.

Vincent Taiye Ogboi

<taiyeogboi@yahoo.com>

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