Osun pensioners justify setting up IDP camp in Osogbo

Pensioners in Osun have their setting up a camp for displaced people in Osogbo, insisting their action was justifiable given the plight of retirees in the state.

The Nigerian Union of Pensioners in Osun says it will continued to agitate until the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, pays their gratuities and the balance of the half pensions they have received for 18 months.

The union’s chairman Omoniyi Ilesanmi, secretary Sola Ojedele and spokesman Yemi Lawal signed a statement justifying setting up an IDP camp for its members , considering their plight.

They noted that the half pension paid by the state government in the past 18 months translates to payment of 9 months pension and that the state government still owed them balance of 9 months pension.

It would be recalled that the retirees set up what they described as IDPs camp near the newly built Nelson Mandela Freedom Park in Osogbo on Monday.

The Director of Bureau of Communication and Strategy in the Office of the Governor, Semiu Okanlawon described the setting up of the IDP camp by pensioners as a wicked and mischievous joke.