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Citing the Salary and Pensions’ Act, Imo retirees have urged Governor Hope Uzodimma to revert salary and pensions payment to the office of the Accountant General.
During a live programme yesterday in Owerri, state chairman of the Association of the Retired Permanent Secretaries, Fabian Agba, and his counterpart in the Pensioners Intervention Committee, Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Ikechukwu Ohaneje, insisted that it was wrong for the governor to have allegedly assigned payment of pensions and salaries to Government House, urging discontinuation of what they termed “selective payments.”
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), through their state chairmen, Austin Chilapku and Nkim Tangban, had issued a statement at the weekend informing Uzodimma of their eight-day warning strike, which began yesterday, over the matter.