Taraba Pensioners Threaten Action Against State Govt

The umbrella assemblage of pensioners successful Taraba State, the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) has issued an ultimatum that, by the extremity of September 2025, should the authorities authorities neglect to fulfill its committedness of implementing the N30,000 minimum wage to them, they would beryllium near with nary enactment but to disrupt administrative activities successful the state.

The pensioners person besides warned that their members volition archetypal relocate to the TY Danjuma House, wherever Governor Agbu Kefas is operating, to statesman their protestation by the acceptable date.

They besides threatened to mobilise different pensioners against Governor Kefas if helium continues to neglect them and subjects them to penury.

El-Nathan Bila Auta, the authorities NUP Chairman, who was addressing newsmen connected its plight successful Jalingo, said that pensioners would besiege the spot of powerfulness to property location their demands if thing is done.
“Although we commune it doesn’t travel to that, if thing happens by the extremity of this month, we volition transportation the good, the bad, and the disfigured among us, including our astir susceptible and sick, and marque the Government House our abode until justness is done.

“If the politician wants to chop america up, fto him bash that,” Bila declared.

Auta, however, lamented the nonaccomplishment of past and contiguous governments successful the authorities to instrumentality pension adjustment, adding that retirees successful the authorities are facing untold hardship arsenic a result.

The NUP president warned that pensioners person a important voting bloc crossed Taraba and volition not hesitate to usage their numbers to power the 2027 elections.

“Pensioners are not hunting dogs for anybody. We volition mobilise and enactment immoderate reliable idiosyncratic from immoderate enactment oregon religion without fearfulness oregon favour.

“Governor Agbu Kefas had, successful June 2025, pledged to statesman outgo of N30,000 minimum wage for retirees.

Although Governor Kefas initially promised to merchandise N2 cardinal to offset arrears for retirees of 2013, lone N100 cardinal was aboriginal disbursed, alleging that lone a selected fewer inferior retirees were paid from the N100 million.

“While civilian servants successful Taraba are benefiting from the N30,000 and adjacent the N70,000 minimum wage, pensioners person been near behind,” helium said.

The national authorities directives connected pension reviews, including the 33 percent summation with arrears approved successful 2014 and consequential adjustments from the N18,000 minimum wage successful 2019, person been ignored successful Taraba.