Again, Rivers State Pensioners, yesterday, occupied the state​ secretariat, demanding payment of their eight years gratuities and six years of pension arrears​

Coordinator of the pensioners, Lucky Ati, while briefing journalists, lamented the challenges of the retired civil servants, describing the actions of the state governor as unfortunate.

Ati said: “We are here because for over nine years, some persons have not been paid their entitlements.

“These are statutory entitlements. We are not asking for anything outside what they are supposed to pay us. For the past eight years, no person in Rivers has been paid gratuity. And you can imagine the life of a civil servant that has nothing and eight years thereafter nothing is been paid.”
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He​ also decried the failure of the Rivers​ State Government to implement the recommendations of the tripartite committee​

“There is nothing that we have not done. There was a tripartite committee that submitted their report in April last year and nobody has acted on the recommendation of the report.

They acknowledged that they have received the report, so how voluminous is the report that government cannot issue a white paper on? The government has not done anything to implement what was in the report,” he lamented.
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