Pensioners in Imo
State, yesterday, protested the continued refusal by Governor Rochas Okorocha
to pay them their pensions which ranged between 22 and 77 months
in arrears.
The agitators blocked the road leading to the state government house in order
to make their request known to the governor.
In the course of the
protest, some pensioners gathered and poured libation to "invoke the
Spirit of their Ancestors" at Okigwe Roundabout over non payment of their
Pension arrears.
The latest
development, which they described as ”wicked of Okorocha’s government is the
plan to pay 40 percent of the accumulated arrears and gratuities and forfeit of
60 percent.




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