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The Ondo State Governor, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has flagged disconnected the outgo of ₦1.4 cardinal to pensioners who retired from the section authorities and superior schoolhouse strategy successful 2014.
Aiyedatiwa disclosed that the motion continued his administration’s committedness to paying the backlog of the state’s unpaid gratuities of retired workers.
Speaking astatine the flag-off ceremonial successful Akure, Governor Aiyedatiwa described the motion arsenic a continuation of the bulk gratuity outgo inaugural helium introduced portion serving arsenic Deputy Governor. This inaugural aimed to wide the backlog of unpaid entitlements and reconstruct status confidence.
He explained that the disbursement followed his administration’s structured outgo process, which uses the twelvemonth of exit from nationalist work arsenic the sole qualification criterion, to guarantee fairness, transparency and predictability.
He said, “I started this adjacent erstwhile I was Deputy Governor. I presented a lawsuit to the then-Governor, which helium approved for us, and we started the inaugural of redeeming money. Periodically, whenever we person a capable allocation, we acceptable speech immoderate wealth to screen the gratuities of our retirees.
This volition proceed present that we are wholly successful complaint arsenic Governor.
“This workout being undertaken contiguous is successful enactment with our outgo process, which has the twelvemonth of exit from nationalist work arsenic the lone origin for qualification for payment. We convey God Almighty for enabling america to reconstruct anticipation to our pensioners, who, earlier now, had mislaid anticipation of ever being paid their gratuity successful afloat aft meritorious work to the authorities and humanity successful general.
“The bulk outgo for the 2014 acceptable of pensioners we are flagging disconnected contiguous further demonstrates our committedness to the payment of the aged and susceptible sections of our population, which aligns with this administration’s argumentation thrust. We tendency to follow and consistently use the twelvemonth of exit arsenic the sole qualification for bulk payment, making the process transparent and predictable and ensuring nary 1 is discriminated against.”
The politician added that the bulk payments for the 2011, 2012, and 2013 sets nether his medication were unprecedented successful the state’s history.
He said, “Today, we are exiting 2014, and precise soon, we volition exit 2015, and truthful on, until everybody is cleared. Since we assumed office, we person paid superior and deliberate attraction to the payment of pensioners successful Ondo State. The authorities is 1 of the fewer successful Nigeria to assistance an upward reappraisal of a level complaint of ₦30,000 to pensioners, to cushion the effect of the planetary economical meltdown affecting Nigeria.”
Governor Aiyedatiwa maintained that the authorities does not see the punctual outgo of pension allowances arsenic an accomplishment but arsenic a motivation and law duty.
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