PTAD: Resolving pensioners' issues

• Published date: 01 February 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

OWOEYE: Dear Omobola, I am Owoeye. I complained about the backlog of pension arrears to PTAD and I sent my documents through Gmail to your office on December 31, 2020.

My complaints are: omission from payroll from January 2000 to February 2005; short-payment from February 1, 2005 till date (N419,315.10).

The PTAD officer, who was handling my file, ignored my bank statement and every complaint I made was underlined and asterisked in the bank statement.

Also, the harmonisation approved by the Federal Government was not given to me.

PTAD: Mr. Owoeye should provide bank statement from retirement till date.

NKANU: My name is Nkanu. I retired from the University of Jos on February 29, 1995. I have not received my pension salary for May.

PTAD: Mr. Nkanu's pension has been paid.

RAPAEL: Good day. Please I want to know why text messages are sent to me every five months to confirm whether I am alive while other people are not bothered. The only one other pensioner that gets such messages is in Akwa Ibom. I am not happy over it. The message should be made general not to two selected persons. Thank you.

PTAD: The messages are error. Kindly ignore.

FASHAKIN: Dear Omobola, I read your column on pension in The Nation and I decided to contact you. My name is Fashakin, a pensioner from Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC). After our retirement 17 years ago, the management of the corporation paid part of our entitlement. But refused to pay the balance.

Several letters had been written and efforts made to get our legitimate right but they were rebuffed by the management. Then, we engaged a lawyer who wrote them to ask for our money.

The management replied our lawyer to forward our names and other information of his clients that they are owing. These were sent to them. Still, the management refused to pay.

All these happened last year. The case was referred to EFCC on January 11, this year. We waited for EFCC to call us for investigation, according to our lawyer. But when we did not hear from them, I went to their office on May 20, 2022 with a letter of reminder.

The letter was refused, to my greatest surprise. I was told that EFCC declined to investigate the case of fraud brought against the railway management.

Madam, I have the proof of ALL I have writing here. Please, for further inquiry for publication, my phone number is 08061224837. I would be glad if you could step in and look into our case. Thank you, madam.

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