The Northern Forum of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) says only four out of 19 northern states have complied with the federal government\u2019s directive to pay\u00a0\u20a632,000 minimum monthly pension.<\/p>\n
Speaking during the forum\u2019s zonal meeting in Kaduna State, the NUP Chairman, Comrade Mohammed Sali, described the situation as \u201cdeeply unfair\u201d to elderly citizens who had dedicated decades of service to the nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly four states now are paying this minimum of \u20a632,000 out of 19. Many states are still paying as little as \u20a63,000, \u20a64,000, or \u20a65,000, which is very wrong,\u201d Sali said.<\/p>\n
He stressed that the forum would adopt dialogue rather than confrontation in pushing states to comply.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not confronting any state. Confrontation is beyond our age. We are your fathers; do you want to see your fathers running on the street from tear gas? We will go from one state to another in dialogue,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
Sali disclosed that Adamawa State is already on the verge of implementing the \u20a632,000 minimum pension.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur governor has set up a technical committee, and they have finished their work. We are only waiting for his approval to start the payment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The forum\u2019s Secretary, Alhassan Balarabe Musa, also condemned the disparity between the pensions of retirees and the benefits enjoyed by politicians.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf a politician, after just four or eight years, receives huge benefits, what of the pensioner who served for 35 years or more? Some states like Taraba pay \u20a63,000, Katsina \u20a65,000, Zamfara the same. It is very unfortunate,\u201d Musa lamented.<\/p>\n
He noted that Kaduna State remains the only state in the Northwest paying \u20a630,000 but urged Governor Uba Sani to raise it to \u20a632,000 in line with the federal directive.<\/p>\n
The forum vowed to intensify consultations until all states in the region comply with the \u20a632,000 minimum pension standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Forum of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) says only four out of 19 northern states…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-61116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}