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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Entry | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Is President Olusegun Obasanjo's proposed National Dialogue the way forward for Nigeria? Yes No Indifferent View results Salary Arrears: Military Pensioners Threaten Strike From Onwuka Nzeshi in Warri, 12.13.2004 Delta National Association of Military pensioners yesterday warned of an imminent “violent reaction” from the legion of ex-service men nationwide, should the Ministry of Defence  and the Military Pensions Board (MPB) fail to pay up the nine month arrears of pension benefits due ex-soldiers  before the Christmas holidays. In a strongly worded petition addressed to the National Assembly and the Ministry of Defence, they decried the repeated verification exercise conducted by the Pensions Board and argued that they were exercise in futility, as long as plight of the pensioners are not improved after each exercise. Comrade Benson Ero-mafuru, National President of the Association who endorsed the petition, urged the Minister for Defence, Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso, to end this nightmare of verification, since it had times without number led to the death of many pensioners who are forced to sleep outdoors because those who conduct the exercise have never deemed it fit to provide accommodation.  Eromafuru also condemned the arrest, detention and intimidation of members of the National Association of Military Pensioners, warning that such attempt  to silence the voice of the disengaged soldiers could further aggravate  the problem.  He reiterated position of the association on the delay in payment of military pension stipends, alleging that it was a grand conspiracy between those administrating the pension funds, the banks and the  defence ministry to decimate the population of retired soldiers, while the conspirators   feed fat  on the pensions funds. They urged the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Defence, Honourable  Wale Oke, to release  the full report of his committee  which probed the administration of the military pensions funds  culminating in the exposure of scandals, adding that the probe would served no useful purpose if all those    found guilty of mismanaging the funds  were not brought before the law.         REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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