31st March, 2014
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State,western Nigeria today released N1.5 billion for the payment of gratuities to Pensioners and severance package of former political office holders in the State.
The money, according to a statement by the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Alhaji Yussuph
Olaniyonu, will be paid to 561 ex-civil servants and former political office holders who had served the State in different capacities.
The gratuities will cover the civil servants who retired between May 2011 and November 2012 who have filed their papers with the State Bureau of Pensions while ex- political office holders who served between 2007 and 2011, but were not paid their severance package by the last administration will benefit from the fund.
The statement read in part, “…The fresh release of N1.5 billion will further clear the arrears of pensions which dated back to 2008 inherited by the Amosun Administration. The arrears are due to be cleared up to November 2012 with the new release of fund.
“The payment of gratuity and severance package is a further fulfillment of the promise by Governor Ibikunle Amosun to ensure that everybody who served the State in various capacities and contributed to its development will be paid their dues, since the current office holders will one day leave office to become ex- office holders”, the statement concluded.