Police retirees urge FG to call PENCOM to order –

Layi Olanrewaju, Ilorin

Police officers, who retired from service between May last year and now, have called on the Federal  Government  to intervene in the alleged mishandling of their pension by the Pension Commission of Nigeria (PENCOM)

The retired police officers said that while none of them, including those who had retired since last year, were yet to be paid any money from their contributory pension scheme, the PENCOM had decided to reduce by half the lump sum it ought to pay them.

The retirees who disclosed that while still waiting to be paid, many of them had  died of starvation, fallen sick or incurred a lot of debts, said the about N1.5 million which the PENCOM wanted to pay them as lump sum would  be too meagre to meet their needs.

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