Benue government has 8,910 pensioners on its payroll, according to Mr Francis Tile, Permanent Secretary, Benue State Bureau of Salaries and Pensions. “We have started the payment; the money we received was used to pay 409 pensioners,” the official told the legislators during plenary. He, therefore, asked the permanent secretary to tell the house the total number of pensioners in the state, how many of them had been paid, and how much had been released. Contributing, Mr Baba Otache (APA/PDP), reprimanded the bureau for toiling with the payment of pensions “at this critical time of general elections”. Otache said that the pensioners represented a high percentage of the voting population and should be treated fairly.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 05, 2019 18:33 UTC