Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged workers in
Lagos and Abuja to stay away from work on April 10 in solidarity with
pensioners in the country “who are dying in penury due to corruption in
the pension industry.”
The organised labour and its civil society allies
have also planned to embark on a peaceful protest march to the
Presidency and state Government Houses to sensitise them on the plight
of pensioners in the country.
Speaking yesterday in Abuja, acting President of NLC,
Comrade Promise Adewusi, said the decision to go ahead with the planned
protest was premised on the undignified silence of government, despite
the “shrill crisis and agony of the victims and the criticism of
concerned citizens on the matter.”
He said: “We have invited you here to restate our
resolve to embark on a peaceful protest on Wednesday, April 10, 2013,
except if before then, government considers it worthwhile to address the
gross criminalities and inequities in the pension fund administration
in the country, particularly as they affect our members.”
According to him, it is shocking that despite series
of letters the congress had written to the government, it did not
acknowledge any of them, let alone responding to the issues raised by
the congress, leading credence to its indifference and complicity.
He said congress “is calling for immediate
restoration of the withheld check-off dues to Nigeria Union of
Pensioners (NUP), accelerated payment of all arrears of pensions to the
deserving pensioners.”
Adewusi also stressed the need to revisit the
inconclusive verification exercises of 2010/2011 by the defunct PRTT for
the purpose of paying all outstanding pension arrears.
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