Edo retirees receive N7,000 monthly pension
Retirees from the Edo State Civil Service under the state’s Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) on Tuesday staged a peaceful protest, calling on the state government to exit them from the Scheme. They lamented that many of them are still receiving as low as between N7,000 and N10,000 as monthly pensions. The protesters carried placards with […]
Retirees from the Edo State Civil Service under the state’s Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) staged a peaceful protest on Tuesday, urging the state government to remove them from the scheme. The pensioners lamented that they are still receiving minimal monthly pensions, ranging from N7,000 to N10,000, despite serving the state for 36 years.
The group’s Chairman, Andrew Asemota, expressed his disappointment, stating that some pensioners receive as little as N7,000 and N10,000 monthly after working for 35 years. He emphasized that the protest aimed to highlight their grievances and seek support from the House of Assembly and its Speaker, Hon Yekini Idaiye, to transition away from the contributory pension scheme.
Asemota praised former Governor Godwin Obaseki for enacting the contributory pension scheme law in 2017 but criticized the current administration for failing to improve the pension system. The Speaker of the State House of Assembly assured the pensioners that their message would be conveyed to the state governor, Monday Okpebholo, for a prompt response, urging them to maintain their peaceful and law-abiding stance while expressing their concerns.
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