{"id":26587,"date":"2020-06-23T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26587"},"modified":"2020-06-23T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:37:00","slug":"imo-pensioners-protest-four-months-pension-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-pensioners-protest-four-months-pension-arrears","title":{"rendered":"Imo pensioners protest four months pension arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of pensioners in Imo State on Tuesday took to the streets of Owerri, the state capital, to protest over four months pension arrears dating from February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the Imo retirees, led by the chairman of Imo Pension Intervention Committee IPIC, Iyke Ohanaeji, threatened a mother of all protest if the government failed to hear their voices.<\/p>\n<p>He cried, \u201cWe have been going hungry and many are dying. No money to feed our families, yet, the government seems not to bother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall embark on a mother of all protest if the government fails to pay us. Enough is enough!\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>Addressing the protesting pensioners, the Secretary to the State Government, Cosmas Iwu, appealed that they exercise patience, disclosing that the delay was as a result of the falsification of BVN by ghost pensioners captured in the verification exercise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-2\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He promised that the government will pay them by the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST observed that the protesters wore black attires and displayed placards with inscriptions such as, \u2018what offense did the retirees commit\u2019, \u2018we demand our pension\u2019, \u2018the BVN system is a ploy to steal our money\u2019, and so on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-14\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of pensioners in Imo State on Tuesday took to the streets of Owerri, the state capital, to protest over four months pension arrears dating from February 2020. 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