…reiterates commitment to senior citizens
By Reichad Akintade, Osogbo
Osun State government has disclosed that it has paid over 4,000 pensioners from 2018 to date, and has expended about N40bn to cater for the welfare of retirees in the State.
Osun state Head of Service, Dr. Festus Olowogboyega Oyebade, in a statement on Wednesday in Osogbo m, reiterated the government’s continued commitment to its senior citizens noting that “the government would not relent on this”.
He further disclosed that the Oyetola-led Administration has continued to release on monthly basis, the sum of N50m to clear outstanding gratuities of pensioners under the old Scheme while a sum of N150m is being released monthly to take care of pensioners under the Contributory Pension Scheme.
Similarly, the Head of Service disclosed that the government recently released the sum of N300m for payment of outstanding arrears of primary school pensioners under the old scheme.
On the recent protest by some primary school retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme, Oyebade said “it is to place on record that the government representatives met with the leadership of the pensioners under the Contributory Pension Scheme on Thursday, 14th October, 2021, and had better understanding on upward review of monthly releases to cater for pensioners in the state in order to ameliorate the challenges of these senior citizens who the government holds in high esteem. Both parties agreed to reconvene on 29th November, 2021.
“It is also on record that the state government has processed the bonds of retired junior officers in the public service who have between One Hundred Thousand Naira and Two Million Naira (N100,000.00 – N2,000,000.00) to collect and they have since started receiving their bond vertificates”.
He therefore craved the indulgence of the retirees in the state “to continue to show understanding and never relent in supporting the present administration which is passionately committed to their welfare”.
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