Aggrieved pensioners in the
state yesterday locked the state Commissioner for Finance, Adewale Osinowo,
inside his office at the government house at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, over their
two months unpaid pensions.
This is happening two weeks
after striking civil servants in Ondo state locked out the state governor,
Segun Mimiko, from office over unpaid 5 month salaries.
The pensioners, under the
aegis of the Association of Local Government Pensioners in the state, stormed
the office complex and demanded to see the Commissioner. When he refused to
come out and attend to them, the pensioners forced their way into the
government house and locked the entrance into his office.
The pensioners said they
were angry that the state government had refused to pay them their May and June
pensions. According to them, about 60 members of their association had died in
the last few weeks owing to the non-availability of their pensions. The
commissioner later attended to them and promised that their pension would be
paid immediately.
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