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Nigeria: FG to Pay Biafran Para-Military Retirees Pension
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Leadership (Abuja)
13 May 2008
Posted to the web 13 May 2008
Federal government is to pay gratuity and pension to Biafran para-military retirees before the end of this year.
Director Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pensions Office (CIPPO),Alhaji Hassan Saleh , disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the weekend in Gwagwalada.
He said 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.
He 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 personnel 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 (NAN)
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