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Nigeria: FG to Pay Biafran Para-Military Retirees Pension
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Vanguard (Lagos)
12 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Lagos
THE Federal Government is to pay gratuity and pension to Biafran para-military retirees before the end of this year.
Alhaji Hassan Saleh, the Director Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pensions Office (CIPPO), disclosed this in an interview, weekend, in Gwagwalada.
He said that already the Interior Minister had submitted a comprehensive report on the method of payment to President Umar Yar'Adua for ratification.
"Those to be paid include Immigration, Customs and Prison personnel under Biafran regime," he said.
Saleh said the payment of the Biafran para-military was initiated by the present administration following the agitation by the retirees 26 years ago.
The director observed that some of the problems to be encountered in the payment included lack of proper service records, retirement period and rank.
"In fact apart from those who served in Biafran Prison department, there is no record from other departments.
"Presently, the payment may be handled by the Accountant-General's office while our office will pay the regular monthly pension," he said.
He said that the Biafrans may not enjoy the same benefits with the present paramilitary personal because of frequent changes in the Federal Government retirement procedure.
The director, however, said the new pension payment had helped to reduce the anomalies in the exercise.
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"So far we are able to clear 40 per cent of the anomalies in the payment of pensioners since last year," he said.
Yar'adua is a man with a deep common sense of what needs to be done for Nigerian Unity. This man can read well between the lines and, may be, God is blessings us finally for all the horrors we have experienced at the hands of our past leaders. We now have a president who is very simple, who is very direct, who is very unassuming and who seems to have the good of Nigeria at heart. God bless Umaru Yar'adua!!
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