In Gombe, pensioners take protests to government house

No fewer than three hundred members of Gombe council of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners barricaded the main entrance of the state government house, causing vehicular traffic in the area.

In a chat with newsmen, state chairman of the council, Mohammed Abubakar, said the pensioners are protesting non-payment of their pensions running into months.

Abubakar hinted that the pensioners are aggrieved because more than 700 local government retirees have not been enrolled into the monthly pension after over two years of retirement among many others.

However, security personnel at the gate of the government house were seen struggling to maintain law and order as the peaceful protesters insisted on seeing the governor.

As at the time of filing this report, the council have proceeded on a meeting with the secretary to the state government, Professor Ibrahim Njodi, in the absence of the governor who is reportedly out of the state.