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25/10/2023

We will engage external auditors to audit the accounts of our Local Government Areas, because there are discrepancies in payment of salaries and retirement benefits at the Local Government system.

Salaries and pensions keep increasing simultaneously, yet, no one is retiring because there are lots of age falsifications in the service. Some continue to falsify their age up to 70 years and above, till they remain unproductive.

We understand that part of the reasons they engage on the falsification is to remain in service, because there is no guarantee that they will receive their benefits when they retire. That is what we are trying to discourage by making sure that pensioners receive their entitlements as and when due.

These were some of my submissions yesterday, when I welcomed in courtesy, Members of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Ebonyi State Council led by their Chairman, Mr Donatus Nwofe.

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24/10/2023

Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, yesterday, received in Ebonyi Government House, the Management of Augustine Namani Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Agbani, Enugu. Discussed Campus Development of our region’s progress.

24/10/2023

Today, I was delighted to see the joy on the faces of our retirees (1996 to 2021) whose gratuities we have paid. Today was the mop-up day and I decided to visit the Centre.

I am immensely grateful to the committee led by our beloved Prof. Mrs. Adeline Idike. I listened to a retiree over the radio, who clearly said that his happiness was not only in the fact that he got paid, but the way and manner he was treated, so kindly. I thank the committee for being very much committed. We will not take their efforts for granted.

We did not embark on this journey because of the level of resources available to us, but because it is a necessity. My happiness is that the retirees are feeling the impact of our Government. There is nothing else that is Government if you cannot take care of your people.

I have been told that some people were not captured in the list, either through omission or that they were not verified in November 2022. I have pleaded with the committee to extend their work by one month to ensure everyone gets verified and paid.

We have agreed in our Executive Council that by the Grace of God, by December, we should have been paying gratuities of pensioners who retired from 2022 to 2023. EXCO has approved as well, that if one is due to retiree in three months, the person proceeds on leave and uses that period to process all necessary documents, so that once he or she is bowing out, his or her gratuity will be paid. Such payment will be a verification of one who is due to start receiving pension from subsequent months. As such, those who have padded their ages should have no one to blame.

We will continue to work hard to meet your needs.

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23/10/2023

Governor Nwifuru pays an official visit to the Gratuities Payment Center for Ebonyi Pensioners (1996-2021) situated at the historic Old Government House Abakaliki.

20/10/2023

Governor Nwifuru received all Chairmen and Director-Generals of Divine Mandate Campaign Council, from the 13 Local Government Areas of Ebonyi State.

18/10/2023

The People’s Governor!