Bauchi govt denies delay in payment of pension to retirees

By: Ajiya Ayuba, Bauchi

The Bauchi State government led by governor Bala Muhammed has denied delay in the monthly payment of pension to retirees in the state.

The Executive Chairman Local Government Pension Board, Alhaji Umar Barau Ningi made this known while briefing newsmen at the Abubakar Umar Secretariat, Bauchi.

He insisted that the state government never failed in the monthly payment of pensions to retirees in all the twenty LGAs of the State.

According to him: “Our pensioners are getting their pension in the first month of their retirement.

Ningi further said that the board first undertook physical verification of all the pensioners, any pensioners whose documents were doubtful and those who refused to present themselves for the exercise were removed from the list of the local governments pensioners under the local government pension board.

“The board could not remove them from the pension payroll because by then, it was the consultants who were paying Pensions and salaries.

He, however revealed that the governor, Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir instructed that the payment of local government pensioners should be return to the board.

“This allowed the board to clean the payroll and remove all doubtful pensioners and those who present themselves during verification’ he stressed..