Over one hundred retirees in Calabar, the Cross River State
Capital are demanding for the immediate payment of their gratuity which
has not been paid for the past five years.
The retirees in a peaceful protest to the governor’s office carried
placards with inscriptions like; we are demanding for the right payment
of our gratuity, Retirees are dying of hunger and neglect.
Other placards read; Pay us our gratuity so we can access medical
attention, why have we been reduced to and forced to become beggars and
borrowers’, why?.
Spokesperson of the aggrieved retirees, Pastor Joshua Idang said that from 2011 till date, more than ninety percent of the state retirees have not been
paid their gratuity, which has through these years subjected them and
their families to untold hardship.
He disclosed that, several efforts made by the retirees to attract
governments attention through these past years has proved abortive and
called on the Ayade-led government to see to their plight by ordering
their payment.
Addressing the retirees, Head of Service, Ekpenyong Henshaw says
governments is not aware of their predicaments and assured them of
positive results from the peaceful protest.
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