BY EXCEL CHIMA
Despite repeated pronouncement by the State government to pay pensioners in
Imo State, pensioners in the State run Orient Tv and Radio allege that they
are owed 35 months of their pension.
One of the pensioners of the media outfit who pleaded anonymity told INNONEWS.COM that their pension arrears have entered the 35th month.
He said all their appeal and peaceful protests in the past to the State government to pay them their pension has not attracted any positive response. He said they keep on getting assurances that they will be paid.
He said “We have held peaceful protests. We even visited the governor in 2014 and appealed to him that pensioners in the then Imo Broadcasting Company (IBC) now renamed Orient have not been paid their pension. On that day, we were assured that something will be done and a committee was later set up to look into the matter but till date nothing has come out of that visit.
"We were at one time paid one month and later three months but that is a little drop of water in an ocean as we are owed 35 months" he explained
He said their members are now dying in their numbers calling on the State government to consider their plight. Efforts to speak to the Commissioner of Information, Chidi Ibe was unsuccessful
Orient Radio and Tv is an arm of the State Information Ministry.
This newspaper learnt that the media outfit was commercialized by the State government and directed to be self sustaining. It was gathered that it receives subvention from the Imo State government but yet unable to pay its pensioners who put in their toil and broil of yesteryears for the agency.
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One of the pensioners of the media outfit who pleaded anonymity told INNONEWS.COM that their pension arrears have entered the 35th month.
He said all their appeal and peaceful protests in the past to the State government to pay them their pension has not attracted any positive response. He said they keep on getting assurances that they will be paid.
He said “We have held peaceful protests. We even visited the governor in 2014 and appealed to him that pensioners in the then Imo Broadcasting Company (IBC) now renamed Orient have not been paid their pension. On that day, we were assured that something will be done and a committee was later set up to look into the matter but till date nothing has come out of that visit.
"We were at one time paid one month and later three months but that is a little drop of water in an ocean as we are owed 35 months" he explained
He said their members are now dying in their numbers calling on the State government to consider their plight. Efforts to speak to the Commissioner of Information, Chidi Ibe was unsuccessful
Orient Radio and Tv is an arm of the State Information Ministry.
This newspaper learnt that the media outfit was commercialized by the State government and directed to be self sustaining. It was gathered that it receives subvention from the Imo State government but yet unable to pay its pensioners who put in their toil and broil of yesteryears for the agency.
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