Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday urged the executive to ensure that backlog of pensions were paid promptly, warning that excuses would not be accepted.
Dogara made this known while reacting to briefing by Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun and her Budget and National Planning counterpart, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, on efforts to offset arrears owed Nigerian pensioners.
He expressed confidence that the promise of President Muhammadu Buhari on the pensions would be kept.
“When the president promised that he was going to release money for bailout to States so that they can pay backlog of salaries and pensions, he did.
“We will not accept any excuse that leaves part of this pension funds hanging,” he said.
According to him, ”I don’t know where you got the money to bail out the states from, but wherever you got the money from that is where…
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