This fresh protest came just a day after Governor Rauf Aregbesola
confirmed that he had received N6.314bn as the second tranche of the
Paris Club loan refund.
The Chairman of the forum, Mr Omoniyi Ilesanmi, who led the protest
said the governor should use the money to pay the entitlements of
pensioners.
He said the pensioners were being owed one-year full pension arrears and gratuities from 2008 to 2012.
The pensioners stormed the State Civil Service Secretariat at Abere
and blocked part of the road but they allowed workers and others to go
in and out of the place.
Armed with placards with various inscriptions the retired workers sang anti-government songs and rained abuses on the governor.
Armed policemen and other security agents deployed to monitor the
protest were civil in their approach as they allowed the protesters to
show their grievances without resorting to violence
The pensioners said no fewer than 2000 of their colleagues had died due to lack of money to buy food and to treat themselves.
Ilesanmi vowed that the pensioners would make the state ungovernable for the governor except he paid their entitlements.
Ilesanmi said, ” The governor should use the N6.314bn he just
collected to pay us. He should look for money from anywhere to pay us
all our entitlements."
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