Rochas, pay us our salaries

As a Nigerian citizen I am worried about what is happening in Imo State. I am sad seeing how pensioners who had put into selfless service the most active part of their adult life, at the age of retirement, are made to pass through a living hell before they are able to get their deserved […]

As a Nigerian citizen I am worried about what is happening in Imo State. I am sad seeing how pensioners who had put into selfless service the most active part of their adult life, at the age of retirement, are made to pass through a living hell before they are able to get their deserved benefits. Why political officials should be paid stupendous salaries and allowances while workers and pensioners are being owed back log of poor salaries and pensions that are at most times, barely able to cater for their immediate needs. If we don’t join hands now to struggle with pensioners for improved welfare, the same treatment being meted out currently to the old will befall workers of today in their retirement age. Today Imo pensioners are owed 19 months salaries while civil servants are owed 4 months and 9 months.
The question is what has our governor been doing with the state and local government allocations which he received from FG which he was expected to pay the salaries of state workers, local government and primary school workers for these periods? Again what is responsible for the disparity in number of months of salary arrears the state workers and local government and primary school workers are owed?
I join others to call on the Okorocha’s government to immediately begin the full payment of all salaries and allowances of workers in Imo as well as pensions and gratuities of pensioners. I find the excuse of lack of funds as mere smokescreen. Pay us our salary. We worked for it.
 
Kenneth Uwadi, Mmahu-Egbema wrote from Imo State