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Pensioners split over N200m unremitted check-off dues

Pension fund

A disagreement has broken out among members of the Federal Civil Service Pensioners Branch (FCSPB) over claims of unremitted N200 million check-off dues by the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP).

While FCSPB’s Chairman Sunday Omezi accused the NUP of refusing to remit an entitled check-off dues totaling N200 million to his branch’s coffers, some members of the same branch have refuted the claims, saying it is a false accusation.

Omezi had gone to court to demand the direct release of allocations from the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), like other affiliated organisations.

The union leader told reporters in Abuja that the decision was taken because the branch had allegedly been short-changed by the NUP, the umbrella body of pensioners in the country, with over N200 million.

He demanded that his branch should have direct access to the money, like other unions affiliated to the NUP.

But a group, Concerned Federal Civil Service Pensioners Stakeholders, under the leadership of Alhaji Ahmed Lawal and Chief Ignatius Godsfrey Uzormah, accused the Omezi-led leadership of gross mismanagement of their branch’s funds.