OGUNDIJO: Good Day. I read in The Nation of Wednesday June 23, 2021 about pensioners’ problems. My concern is on the minimum wage increase. I registered with NSITF. I would like to know if the minimum wage increase was extended to qualified pensioners. Thanking you in advance for your kind reply.
DSP UZOMA: My last station was the Police College, Oji River, Enugu State. We were told that our monthly pension would be increased from May 2021 as approved by the President. We were asked to go for documentation at the state Police Headquarters close to retirees. And we did. But when we received our May 2021 pay, there was neither change nor incremental adjustment. Why is this so? Thank you.
OMOGBOYE: My husband, Sgt. Omogboye, died on February 26, 2004. He served at 2 Squadron Police Mobile Force, Keffi Street, Obalende, Lagos before he passed on. His Next-of-kin (NoK) are our children Sakirat Omogboye, Ismaila Omogboye and Mohamed Omogboye and I.
Only my late husband’s gratuity of N239,000 had been paid to the family since 2004, and N314,000 for pension. We were told that the pension would be paid monthly to the children when they were 18 years. Yet, since, then, nothing had been paid.
I was also told that we would be given N500,000 for insurance while the children would be entitled to scholarship because my husband died on duty.
However, I thank you so much for your help. I googled the newspaper to see my complaints and saw PTAD’s response to me in the May edition. PTAD asked if the other next-of-kin and I were verified and if so, we should send the verified slip to their email and if not, we should come to Abuja for verification.
We sent the verified slip to them. This is for me and my daughter because we have been verified. But two of my sons are yet to be verified.
Please, we still need your help because they have been slashing my late husband’s pay since he died in 2004.
Even someone allegedly collected his salary for one year after his death before a signal was sent to stop the payment.
Please come to our aid, because we are suffering. Thank you.
AKPANIKA: I worked with the then P&T. The date of my first appointment is September 22, 1962 and that of retirement June 1, 1986.
My name has been removed from the payroll since May 2018. I was verified and captured on May 31, 2019.
I am an elderly and frail- looking woman with bad sight and has difficulty moving around.
I will appreciate if PTAD will take prompt action to respond to my application.
FADIPE: I will like to inform you that the my minimum wage for 24 months paid to me is not correct.
SHEHU: What is the problem with our consequential adjustment arrears payment for Federal Poly, Bida. Others have been paid since last month, but ours is yet to be paid. Kindly assist us.
IJABOR: My complaint is on short-payment of gratuity. I served for 31 years and retired on February 9, 2006 as Superintendent of Prisons on Grade level 11 Step 7.
I was paid gratuity of N1,665,569,08, using 268 per cent, instead of 420 per cent for 31 years. Please see the Federal Ministry of Establishment and Management Services Circular of September 13,1991.
UZOR: I call on PTAD to pay my outstanding gratuity. I retired as Permanent Secretary from Imo State. But the federal share of my gratuity has not been paid despite the November 2015 zonal verification in Owerri by PTAD.
JABARU: I am sending this message on behalf of my father Jabaru from Osogbo, Osun State.
He retired from the Ministry of Works and Transport, Osogbo on August 16, 2006, but is yet to receive his federal share gratuity and pension arrears while others in the same category as him have received theirs.
Prior to the directives he was given by the staff members on the PTAD helpline, he attached the required documents, which include his bank statements from 2006 to date, his verification, among others, to the official email address of PTAD via the email.
I will be grateful if this can be looked into and the action be expedited so he can get his pension arrears and gratuity on time because he has been on this issue for quite a long time and he is quite aged.
Kindly assist us.
OGUNGBESAN: I retired from the Ministry of Agriculture, Omu Aran, Kwara State. My complaint is: short payment of monthly pension/salary since September 1, 1998.
UDE: I retired from NIPOST. Please I have not seen my pension areas while my colleagues have seen theirs.
Kindly use your good offices to look into my matter because I don’t have anybody to speak for me.
GOKOP: I retired from Plateau State civil Service, with federal share. I was verified by PTAD. My colleagues are on pension pay roll, but uptill now, I am yet to be on the pay roll. PTAD, help me.
MUSTAFA: I retired from the Lagos State Post-primary Teaching Service Commission on April 30, 2004, after 35 years.
The date of my first appointment at Epe Division Grammar School, Lagos State is June 1,1969. My complaints are that I have not been paid the federal share of my gratuity from 1969 to 1976. My pension from May 1, 2004 to February 2008 has not been paid. Instead, I was paid from March 1, 2008 to date. Thanks for your assistance. May God bless your efforts.
THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Therefore, Ogundijo, DSP Uzoma, Omogboye, Akpanika, Fadipe, Shehu, Ijabor, Uzor, Jabaru, Ogungbesan, Gokop and Mustafa should look out for the newspaper next week for responses from PTAD.
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