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Insult from Jonathan to his people: Pardoned Biafran soldiers, others get 20% pension arrears

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THE 160 Biafran soldiers who were granted presidential pardon are among military pensioners that would be paid balance of their 20 per cent pension arrears.
This came as the Federal Government vowed to do everything within available resources to pay the military pensioneers the balance of their arrears with effect from 2010 to 2013, running into billions of naira.
The government had, in 2013, paid the retirees 33 per cent instead of 53 per cent accumulated arrears, but the military pensioners, three weeks ago, protested the payment of the balance of 20 per cent in Abuja and threatened to disrupt the 2015 general election if they were not paid.
Speaking during a visit to the military pensions board, on Thursday, Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, disclosed that the agitation of the retirees for the payment of their arrears was receiving attention at the highest level of government and would all be paid soon.
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The minister lamented the high rate of casualty in the war against insurgency and the pressure it had put on the pensions board, while assuring that the next of kin of the deceased soldiers would receive prompt attention for the payment of their entitlements.
According to him, “an exception rather than the rule will be applied when it comes to meeting the needs of the entitlement of those who died in the cause of fighting the insurgency.”
He declared that those lost their loved ones must not be made to suffer, while assuring the retirees that their arrears would be paid soon.
Obanikoro disclosed that for the first time in the last 25 years, the current government, led by President Goodluck Jonathan, was committed to equip the armed forces.
Earlier, chairman of the military pension board, Air Commodore Mohammed Rabiu Dabo, had disclosed that over 130,000 pensioners are in their pay roll every month.

 Biafra Galaxy

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