KADPOLY ex-staff protest 15 years unpaid arrears

Disengaged staff of the Kaduna Polytechnic (KADPOLY) have appealed to the Executive Secretary of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) to pay their arrears owed to them for over 15 years.

Daily Trust recalls that in 2007, 1,196 staff of the KADPOLY were laid off in a downsizing exercise conducted by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration.

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They were, however, hopeful that their arrears would be paid when they went through a new verification exercise in 2019 and the assurance given by the leadership of PTAD to pay their monies by the first quarter of 2022.

Since then, the aggrieved staff who exited the service of the polytechnic on the Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Scheme (CONTISS) told Daily Trust that they had written several reminder letters to PTAD, all to no avail.

Mohammed Garba, a disengaged staff member, reminded the PTAD boss of her promise to pay all outstanding arrears in the first quarter of 2020 saying, “Already, we are in the last quarter of the year.”

Also, Magaji Yakubu lamented that people who were supposed to be paid N2m were paid N300,000.

Another pensioner, Babatunde Ipinyomi, said the least paid among the disengaged staff there were expecting N1.1 million; unfortunately, they were paid N455,000.  

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Kaduna State chapter has appreciated the state government for the release of N1.1 billion for the payment of gratuities and death benefit.

Secretary of the union, Comrade Alhassan Balarabe Musa, while speaking at a media briefing, said the gesture would in no way reduce the hardship facing its members both in the state and local governments.