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Protest: Members of Ex-servicemen association dissociate selves, condemn leader’s action
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Some members of the executive of the ex-servicemen and Family Welfare Association, have dissociated themselves from the protest led by its Presiden Anthony Agbas on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Vice-President of the Association and Chairman of Bwari Chapter retired Master Warrant Officer Samuel Unubi and the Secretary, retired Sgt. Thaddaeus Gershom disclosed this while briefing Newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
Unubi said the protest led by the president was uncalled for, saying that issues of the minimum wage, arrears of pension and debarment allowances being raised were being attended to by the Military Pensions Board (MPB).
Nigerian Civil War Veterans Protest Against Nonpayment of 20 Months Arrears, Other Allowances
“We are not giving them any ultimatum. We want action. All of us are retired. We are talking about 97,000 retired soldiers in the country who are affected.”
by SaharaReporters, New York
Jan 13, 2021
Retired soldiers who fought in the Nigerian Civil War on Wednesday gathered in front of the Federal Ministry of Finance building in Abuja to protest against the nonpayment of the minimum wage arrears of their pension by the Nigerian government for 20 months.
The war veterans also stated that their demonstration was to stop the government from deducting from their pensions.
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Retired soldiers on Wednesday, stormed the Ministry of Finance, Abuja, in protest over the non-payment of their pension arrears.
They also demanded the inclusion of officers who fought in the civil war in the military pension scheme.
He equally demanded the payment of the minimum wage arrears accruing to them since 2019.
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He said, “We veterans of the Nigerian armed forces are appealing to the President to graciously approve the payment of the minimum wage arrears of pension (20 months), which was approved since April 2019.
“The government should pay the retired officers and soldiers who are still alive security debarment allowances and not a selected few from November 2017 till date as was done by the Ministry of Defence.”