SAT, MAY 16 2020-theG&BJournal- The Borno State Head of Civil Service, Barr. Simon C. Malgwi during a press briefing Saturday said that the State Governor Prof Babagana Umara Zulum has directed the enrollment of 552 Borno civil servants into the state’s pension payment. Those enrolled are ex-workers who retired between 2016 and April 2020.
Malgwi said that the State Governor have been considerably disturbed by the pension problems in the state, and had to personally intervene in order to address the problem and ensure a hitch free system of pension administration in the state.
Malgwi noted that the 552 enrolled are inclusive of the 387 complaints received from the Nigerian Union of Pensioners on Thursday, 12th March 2020, during a public hearing which the governor also attended.
He said that over 90% of the pensioners have so far been cleared and paid their one month pension and the payment will continue after the process of their enrollment into pension scheme id fully completed.
‘’The remaining 10% were largely not captured either due to non-reporting for the exercise or for being deferred for further investigation and necessary or appropriate action,’’ Malgwi said.
Malgwi attributed the lingering pension crisis to a number of administrative factors and some unavoidable challenges on the part of the pensioners. This he said include failure to provide correct details, particularly in respect to bank account numbers and BVN, and cases of fraud and unsavoury activities, deliberate overstay in service beyond the mandatory years of service or retirement age, collecting both salaries and pensions at the same time, impersonation, improper replacement and overpayments, cases of next-of-kin not reporting death of pensioners to government until ATM expires and become stranded among others.
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