Osun pensioners block govt secretariat, protest non-payment of benefit

Pensioners in Osun state stormed the entrance of the government secretariat Abeere to protest over the non payment of their entitlement.

The protesters who carried placards with various inscriptions chanting anti government song lamented on the untold hardship they were being subjected to due to the unpaid entitlement.

They also blocked the entrance of the secretariat preventing human and vehicular movement.

Some of the pensioners who spoke with Adaba F.M Adeyemi Sobaloju and Oluwakemi Aluko said they have retired for the past 6 years without receiving their entitlement.

They urged the state governor gboyega to accede to their demands as some of them were dying of hunger and starvation

The secretary to the state Government wole oyebamiji who attended to the pensioners implored them to exercise more patient promising that the state government will do the needful.

The pensioners said they will not stop protesting until their demand are meant by the state government.