A protest has been staged by pensioners in Osun state over the non-payment of their entitlements by Governor Rauf Aregbesola. The pensioners are alleging that the governor is yet to make moves to pay them despite receiving the state government’s receipt of inflow from the Paris Club loan refund.
According to the pensioners the long overdue entitlements have led to the deaths of many of them as they have waited in vain for the receipt of their pensions without having anything to take care of their health or welfare.
The pensioners have adopted a new mode to their protest through the adoption of open prayers within the surrounding environs of the state secretariat.
One of those in the fore-front of the protest, Alhaji Yemi Lawal said, “We decided to take our case to Aregbesola’s Creator in prayer because the suffering is much. We fixed today for these special prayers without knowing that Aregbesola’s mother’s fidau would also hold today. We didn’t know that the woman would die on Monday.
“The fund he collected before the second tranche of Paris Club loan refund was enough to settle our pension arrears and gratuities”.
It must be recalled that the Federal Government made a disbursement of about N243.8 billion naira to all the 36 states and Abuja as refunds from the Paris Club loan refund.
Osun state received a total of N6,314,106,340.62 from this sum.
Full details of the amount received by each state are further given below:
1 ABIA 5715765871.48
2 ADAMAWA 6114300352.68
3 AKWA-IBOM 10000000000
4 ANAMBRA 6121656702.34
5 BAUCHI 6877776561.25
6 BAYELSA 10000000000
7 BENUE 6854671749.25
8 BORNO 7340934865.32
9 CROSS RIVER 6075343946.93
10 DELTA 10000000000
11 EBONYI 4508083379.98
12 EDO 6091126592.49
13 EKITI 4772836647.08
14 ENUGU 5361789409.66
15 GOMBE 4472877698.19
16 IMO 7000805182.97
17 JIGAWA 7107666706.76
18 KADUNA 7721729227.55
19 KANO 10000000000
20 KATSINA 8202130909.85
21 KEBBI 5977499491.45
22 KOGI 6027727595.8
23 KWARA 5120644326.57
24 LAGOS 8371938133.11
25 NASARAWA 4551049171.12
26 NIGER 7210793154.95
27 OGUN 5739374694.46
28 ONDO 7003648314.28
29 OSUN 6314106340.62
30 OYO 7901609864.25
31 PLATEAU 5644079055.41
32 RIVERS 10000000000
33 SOKOTO 6441128546.76
34 TARABA 5612014491.52
35 YOBE 5413103116.59
36 ZAMFARA 5442385594.49
37 FCT 684867500.04
