By; AMOS TAUNA, Kaduna
The Kaduna State College of Education Retirees Association, has appealed to Governor Uba Sani, to expedite action in ensuring the prompt payment of their gratuities and pensions.
The appeal was contained in a communiqué jointly signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Association, Mr. Bulus Katung Kajang, and Mr. Emmanuel Dominic Nkom, respectively.
According to the statement, the association stressed the need to have an audience with Governor Sani, so that they can table their plight before him, with a view to proffering solutions to the lingering hardship they have been exposed to, following the non-payment of their benefits for over seven years.
The association said it wrote a letter to him in July to intimate him on how prompt benefits were paid to retirees, and pointed out how the unwarranted delay in the remittance of theirs has exposed them to untold hardship, after giving their most productive years in service.
It lamented the inability of its members to meet their basic needs, such as medical or utility bills, or pay their children’s school fees, adding that they best fit the description of vulnerable person’s, and appealed that government’s palliatives should be provided to them.
The group said the country’s dire economic situation was taking its toll on even those with means of income, saying that it is worse on the retirees who have nothing to fall back on, and begged the Governor to authorize payment of the long overdue entitlements.
