The Kaduna State College of Education Retirees Association has once again urged Governor Uba Sani to ensure the timely payment of their gratuities and pensions.
This appeal was conveyed through a communiqué jointly signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Association, Bulus Kajang and Emmanuel Nkom, respectively. The communiqué was made available to the press in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area, over the weekend.
Additionally, they have requested an audience with the governor to present their grievances and seek solutions to the ongoing hardship they have endured for more than seven years.
“We wrote a letter to him in July to intimate him about how prompt benefits were paid to retirees and how the unwarranted delay in the remittance of our entitlements has exposed us to untold hardship, after giving our most productive years in service.
“Most of our members cannot meet their basic needs, such as medical or utility bills, or pay their children’s school fees, adding that they best fit the description of vulnerable persons, and appealed that government’s palliatives should be provided for them too.
“The country’s dire economic situation was taking its toll on even those with means of income, and added that it is worse on the retirees who have nothing to fall back on, and begged the Governor to authorize payment of the long overdue entitlements,” the group pleaded.
