A lawyer has filed a suit against the Enugu State governor over non-payment of retirees’ pensions and gratuities for 10 years.Joined in the suit are Enugu State Pensions Board, Government of Enugu State and the state’s attorney-general.
Others are the accountant-general, Enugu State and Local Government Staff Pensions Board, Enugu State. Mr Ogbe is suing for himself and on behalf of former employees of the state government and local government areas of the state. The suit, brought under the enforcement of the fundamental rights of Nigerian citizens who retired as civil servants in Enugu State, was filed on September 2.
The lawyer is seeking an order of the court directing the defendants to pay the gratuity of former employees of the state government and those in the local government councils who retired from June 1, 2011 to date.
Is long overdue. My dad retired in 2009. He died in 2014 still they are yet to pay his gratuity. This is 2021.