Date:April 4, 2019, 2:47 am
Police retirees allege underpayment of gratuity by PENCOMBy Mod - 15 minutes ago - [ Update ]
By Alemma Aliu
BENIN CITY—SEVEN police personnel who retired in various ranks have threatened to drag the National Pension Commission and the police authorities to court over underpayment of their gratuities after 35 years in service.
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They claimed they were grossly underpaid compared to their counterparts who had the same rank with them, enrolled into the police force and retired the same time.
They are Monday Iguma, Michael Ezuem, John Ogodo, Onwuzuruike Godwin, Ocheni Friday, Abakar Friday Edokpolo and Augustine Dibie.
A letter to the Head, National Databank Management Department of the National Pension Commission by their counsel, Olayiwola Afolabi had given them seven days for the anomalies to be corrected or risk legal action.
He said the latest letter was a follow up to the one he had earlier written.
He said the affected officer’s counterparts got not less than N4 million while they were paid less than N2 million each. “We hereby use this medium to demand for the payment of our clients’ accurate entitlement within seven days of the receipt of this letter.
But a letter from the NPF Pensions Ltd dated March 6, 2019 addressed to Afolabi and signed by Mustapha Suleiman and Abdulkareem Gezuwa who are Heads, Benefit Administration and Executive Director in charge of operations said the retried personnel got what was due to them in compliance with PENCOM regulations.
Source:
www.vanguardngr.com/2019/04/police-retirees-allege-underpayment-of-gratuity-by-pencom/
