By Ayodele Oni
Retirees in Borno state that retired between 2019 and 2021 can now heave a sigh of relief as the state government is set to pay their pension and gratuity early in the year.
The State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has approved N8b to offset the backlog of liabilities in pensions and gratuities for retired primary school teachers and other civil servants that have worked with the government.
The N8b approval will clear the backlogs accrued from 2019 to 2021.
The governor announced the approval on Wednesday at the council chamber of the government house in Maiduguri.
Zulum released N3b in June and September, 2019, to clear gratuities of 1,684 retirees that left the civil service between 2013 and 2019 and disbursed over N12b in 2020 for retirees that left both the state and local government civil service between 2013 and 2017.
“Since I took over in 2019 to date, we have paid about N25 billion for the settlement of gratuities for those that have worked with local and state governments.”
Governor Zulum assured that his administration will settle all the backlog of gratuities and pensions before the end of his tenure in 2027, stressing that “Insh’Allah, I will clear all the backlog of gratuities before I leave office in 2027.”
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