No fewer than 1351 pensioners in Niger State are set to smile as the Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, has released the sum of N2.6bn for the immediate payment of their pensions.
However, pensioners that left the service under the old scheme are to receive their entitlements before the others.
The Director General, Niger State Pension Board, Alhaji Usman Muhammad, who made the disclosure to journalists in Minna on Friday, said that 1096 local government retirees and 255 pensioners in the civil service were to benefit from the payment.
Muhammad said those to be paid would have to provide among others, their letters of first appointment and disengagement from the service while relations of deceased workers must produce the death certificate of the relation whose entitlements they intend to claim.
The DG warned that the board would not tolerate any ‘under the table dealings’ during the payment exercise as the full weight of the law would be brought on anyone caught.
He said the board was “critically looking into the cases of pensioners that fall under the new Contributory Pension Scheme with a view to ensuring they received their benefits as soon as possible.”
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