Cross River pensioners protest unpaid pension since 2014

Cross River pensioners protest unpaid pension since 2014

Cross River pensioners protest unpaid pension since 2014 by the state government and blocked Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar metropolis as they arranged chairs and sat on the two lanes of the road.

The inscriptions on some of the placards read:

We have suffered enough’

‘Pay us our gratuity from 2014’

‘‘Governor Ayade: Retirees in Cross River are entitled to longevity’, ‘Let us not die out of frustration’

The retirees claimed they had buried six of their colleagues in the past week as a result of unpaid benefits

Government must not wait until we all die before they pay us

They pleaded with the state government to pay up all gratuities being owed since 2014

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