OKUNOLA: Dear Omobola, thanking you and your good office The Nation newspaper for the wonderful job you are doing for pensioners of this country. l am a NITEL retiree. l did my verification since January 2OI8 but l am yet to get my pension from PTAD. My date of first appointment is July 02, I979 and date of retirement is November I4, I99I. Kindly help me.
ANONYMOUS: Good day, I will like to know if my father is eligible for pension under Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS). He was appointed on July 3, 1989 and was removed on April 27, 1999.
IRIOGBE: Dear Omobola, my name is Iriogbe. Your efforts to ensure retirees are not subjected to untold hardships on retirement, is very much appreciated. By virtue of Decree 42 of 1992, NIPOST is a Federal Government parastatal which I highlighted in my text messages to your office and that of the Executive Secretary of PTAD. I equally sent petitions and relevant documents to both offices so that we can be paid all the accrued arrears. We are yet to hear from PTAD. This complaint is not new to your office as you once published same in The Nation newspaper, where I was asked by PTAD to write to its office which I have done. Similarly, I will like to inform the Executive Secretary that I have gone through a newspaper, not The Nation, where the OAGF asked officers from ministries, departments, agencies and parastatals including NIPOST who were disengaged from service in 2006 to 2007 to appear for verification at various centres between November 7 and December 2, 2022. Some of NIPOST staff said to have been disengaged in December 31, 2006 were still in service up to February 27, 2007, hence, PMG\CEO’S letter. This issue has been resolved but arrears are not paid yet. Are we to go for the exercise?
OYIBO: Good morning, I am Mr. Peter Oyibo retired from NYSC. I received your response from The Nation newspaper dated Wednesday July 30, 2022 which says that my pension arrears were being computed. Please, I am still waiting for the payment of eight years’ arrears and for me to be in monthly payroll. Thank you.
OPADEJI: Good day, I thank you for the humanitarian job you are doing to correct anomalies arising from pension payment to pensioners. Please, help me out of my predicament. My name is Opadeji. I retired from NITEL on January 21, 2001, on Grade Level 14 as senior manager. I participated in the NITEL verification exercise in 2001 and PTAD verification exercise in 2005 respectively. In 2005, when I was going for pensioners’ verification exercise, my documents were missing and I sworn to an affidavit on the loss of the documents. On the basis of the loss, PTAD placed me on grade level 9 and I sent complaint emails to PTAD many times but no action was taken on my complaint email. I therefore, took the risk of travelling to Abuja PTAD office when the original copy of letter of promotion was delivered to me by a good Samaritan. My salary was subsequently readjusted to Grade Level 14, but less than my salary before the verification exercise and also far less than the pension being paid to my colleagues on the same GL 14. Therefore, I sent many complaint emails but they were returned undelivered perhaps my emails have been blocked. Since then, I have accepted my fate. Now that I have the opportunity to forward my complaint through you to PTAD, I shall be grateful if my complaint can be treated with utmost concern.
Thank you.
DUROJAYE: Hello, my name is Durojaye. Thank you for the publications of my complaint of short payment of my pension federal share since 2015, on August 24 and 31, 2022. Please, reactivate my current federal share of pension. Please, I expect a positive action.
ANONYMOUS: I want to remain anonymous. My complaint is on non payment of arrears of my monthly pension from April 2007 to September 2010. I retired on March 30, 2007. My arrears is pending for these years. I retired from the Code of Conduct Bureau in Cross River State. Kindly help me.
BASSEY: My name is Bassey and my complaint is non-payment of my long overdue monthly pension and arrears. Since I retired from Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in 2006, a series of letters/bank statements and verification slips were sent to PTAD but nothing has been done. PTAD keeps on promising to pay but nothing has been paid till today. They have refused to pay my money for 17 years now.
THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Therefore, OKUNOLA, IRIOGBE, OYIBO, OPADEJI and BASSEY should look out for the newspaper from next week Wednesday for responses from PTAD and subsequently every Wednesday for pension news.