Pensioners decry non-payment of pensions

Pensioners under the Nigerian Union of Pensioners Contributory Pension Scheme (NUPCPS) have called on the Federal Government to save them from untimely death plaguing members as a result of penury occasioned by non-payment of their pensions.

The Secretary-General of the NUPCPS, Pastor Michael Borokinni, said pensioners are dying daily as a result of the various plights they passed through, citing a 60-year-old pensioner who died on Tuesday but looked like an 80-year-old man due to anguish experienced before he died.

Borokinni stated this during the inauguration of the Executive Committee of NUPCPS, PHCN Oyo State Contributory Unit in Ibadan, Oyo State. The new executive members are the Chairman, Alhaji Mukaila Kayode Adedapo; Vice Chairman, Engr Niyi Morenigbade; General Secretary, Pastor Akinade Titus Aderemi; Treasurer, Mrs. Edna Oweseri Oyedele; and Auditor, Mrs. Olufunmilayo Oloko.

Borokinni said: “I wish you could look at my people now; we have some people that are not as old as me, but look as old as my father. I have somebody here today who left as a senior manager at the point of retirement. He probably was earning N400,000 monthly before he retired, but now earn about N100,000 monthly through pension. We are being shortchanged and being denied our rights.

In his remarks, the Southwest Chairman of NUPCPS, Chief Joseph Oyadiran, urged the new leaders not to victimise those who did not support them but court their friendship. Oyadiran charged all members to have faith in the new leaders and pray that they succeed in their new roles.

The new Chairman, Alhaji Mukaila Adedapo, said with God on their side, the new executive members would work together and hard to achieve the desired goal.