In a statement issued weekday, the Pensions Transition Arrangement board (PTAD) proclaimed that payment can start on Friday, October 20, in Enugu state.
“The general public would recall that Nigeria witnessed an unpleasant warfare between July 1967 and Gregorian calendar month 1970 and as a results of that unfortunate amount in our history, some members of the military, the Nigeria police and also the paramilitary officers World Health Organization took dispense with the advocator were laid-off from the service,” the statement scan.
“The dismissal of these officers was commuted to retirement in year 2000 through a presidential amnesty granted on twenty ninth could, 2000 by the administration of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR.
“A verification exercise was conducted for the pardoned officers by the defunct Police Pension workplace and recently PTAD on one hand and also the Police Service Commission on the opposite.
“Despite the presidential pardon and verification of those officers several of them remained unpaid years when the pardon. However, the current administration underneath the ready leadership of president, C-in-C of the military, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has gracefully given approval for the payment of pension entitlements to those officers and their next of kin.
“PTAD is commencing the payment of pension advantages to the retired war affected cops on Friday twentieth October, 2017 in Enugu. 162 officers are going to be payrolled and fifty seven Next of Kin World Health Organization have conjointly not been paid their death advantages are going to be paid within the 1st batch”.
This development is drawing near the rear of revived heightened agitation for Biafra LED by the now-proscribed autochthonic folks of Biafra. It conjointly follows widespread criticism of the Buhari administration for alleged marginalisation of the South-East region of the country, a charge the president had repeatedly denied.
Some could interpret the move as a part of effort by Buhari to build strained relations with the South-East region. Recall that solely days agone, the president met with leaders from the region, in what was wide viewed as a diplomatic reaching to douse tension and reassure of commitment to the event of the region.
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