Kwara State government has temporarily suspended the payment of monthly pensions to 6,437 retired workers in the state with effect from July 2022, following their inability to complete verification exercises organised for pensioners in the state. The government, in a press statement titled “Kwara State Government Receives Interim Report on Pensioners’ Verification”, issued in Ilorin on Saturday said that the retirees failed to submit their documents to a screening committee constituted for the exercise. It said, “The Kwara State Government has received an interim report on the verification exercise on the State Pensioners. “The State Government contracted a financial consortium in December last year to carry out a verification exercise on the State Pensioners as a result of the precarious challenges inhibiting the smooth payment of pensioners’ entitlement. “Consequently, the government has directed the Office of the State Accountant General to suspend forthwith, payment to the affected Pensioners effective from this month (July ) until they are cleared.

Source: Punch August 01, 2022 06:50 UTC