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Pensioners took to the street of owerri over non-payment of pensions and gratuities

 
Its over five months the supreme court declared Senator Hope Uzodinma as governor of imo state, and ever since then it has been a saga raging from hard times to poverty.
Pensioners in Imo State on Tuesday took to the streets of Owerri, the state capital, protesting the state government’s non-payment of their pensions and gratuities since February.
Barring placards with various inscriptions depicting their plights, the retirees accused the governor Hope Uzodinma led administration of insensitivity.


The pensioners who wanted to invade the state government house were, however, resisted by security men who formed a barricade.
Unable to access the government house, the pensioners, blocked the state government house roundabout, preventing movements in and out of the government house.
According to Mr Iyke Ohaneje, who introduced himself as Chairman, Imo State Pensioners Intervention Committee, said that all efforts the association made to receive their pensions and gratuities had been frustrated by the office of the accountant general of the state. He also said 42 pensioners had died as a result of their inability to take care of their welfare because of the non-payment of their pensions. According to my iyke, he said they have not only come to protest but also to beg the people of imo for arms as they could no longer feed themselves and their families any longer.
He accused the government agent of frustrating all effort to get what rightly belong to them, calling on the state government to intervene before things get out of hand.


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