{"id":207009,"date":"2022-07-31T10:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T09:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=207009"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T09:18:46","slug":"kwara-govt-suspends-pension-payment-to-6437-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/31\/kwara-govt-suspends-pension-payment-to-6437-retirees\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwara govt suspends pension payment to 6,437 retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government of Kwara State has disclosed that it has\u00a0temporarily suspended the payment of monthly salary pension to 6,437 retired workers in the state with effect from July 2022 following their inability to complete a verification exercise organised for pensioners in the state.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a press statement released by the government titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/20\/former-kwara-state-governor-abdulfatah-ahmed-released-after-two-nights-in-efcc-custody\/\">Kwara State<\/a> Government Receives Interim Report On Pensioners\u2019 Verification,\u201d issued in Ilorin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The government said that the retirees failed to submit their documents to a screening committee constituted for the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary in the office of the state Head of Service, Murtala Atoyebi, the government said that out of a total of 16,368 pensioners in the state, only 9,931 pensioners were verified by the committee.<\/p>\n<p>It said, \u201cThe Kwara State Government has received an interim report on the verification exercise on the state pensioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state government contracted a financial consortium in December last year to carry out a verification exercise on the state pensioners as a result of the precarious challenges inhibiting the smooth payment of pensioners\u2019 entitlement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Interim Report submitted by the firm indicated that a total of 16,368 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/22\/were-dying-of-starvation-abia-pensioners-beg-fg-to-save-them\/\">pensioners<\/a> were processed for screening out of which only 9,931 were verified valid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It added, \u201ca total of 6,437 pensioners failed to participate in the verification exercise which was conducted in all the 16 Local Government Areas of the state to ease the burden of the aged people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, the government has directed the Office of the State Accountant General to suspend forthwith, payment to the affected pensioners effective from this month (July) until they are cleared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government advised all those with anomalies in their documentation to immediately clear such with the consultant while those that failed to appear for the verification exercise should go to the Staff Development College, Ilorin for screening, commencing from Monday, August 1, 2022,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government of Kwara State has disclosed that it has\u00a0temporarily suspended the payment of monthly salary pension to 6,437 retired workers in the state with effect from July 2022 following their inability to complete a verification exercise organised for pensioners in the state. 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