This was courtesy of the Pension Reform Act, which set up the National Pension Commission (PenCom) to manage both public and private sector workers’ pensions. The protest is a prelude to more persistent and coordinated protests to follow, starting from next month,” Bature revealed. He explained that the main purpose of the meeting was to clarify misconceptions generated on the payment of pensions to medically boarded pensioners in November last year and to address other welfare concerns of military veterans. The second-in-command told us that the Commander in Abuja told him to collect our rifles, while awaiting further directives from Abuja. “Before the two weeks elapsed, we saw the remaining 15 officers we left in Damboa arrive at the Force Headquarters again.

Source: The Guardian January 23, 2021 04:41 UTC