{"id":100059,"date":"2022-10-07T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T07:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=100059"},"modified":"2022-10-07T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T07:55:50","slug":"n2bn-nlc-protests-incessant-deductions-from-monthly-pension-of-retirees-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/n2bn-nlc-protests-incessant-deductions-from-monthly-pension-of-retirees-in-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"N2bn: NLC Protests Incessant Deductions From Monthly Pension Of Retirees In Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC in solidarity with Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) came out enmass for a peaceful protest in Kano, over incessant deduction of the state pensioners monthly stipends.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Reports indicate that the unions stormed the popular State road, in the metropolis to Kano state government House to show their displeasure over the recurring deduction from retirees\u2019 pension in the last 20 months and also appealed to the state government for interventions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to a statement sent to the governor by the Nigerian Labour Congress, Kano chapter, at the peaceful protest, from January, 2021 to March 2022 (20 months) deductions running into billions of Naira, were deducted from the state and local government pensioners\u2019 salary \u2018with no cogent reasons and with no hope of overcoming the situation despite several attempts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe sum of two billion, five hundred and seventy three million, ninety-nine thousands fourty nine Naira, sixty one kobo (\u20a62,573,098,041.61) were deducted from the local government pensioners\u2019 legitimate monthly pension with minimum of 13% monthly shortfall payment per pensioner in the month of October, 2021 and maximum of 26.2% in February, 2022.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWhile from March, 2021 to August 2022 the sum of Nine Hundred and Six Million, Nine Hundred and seventeen thousands, Five hundred and ninety five Naira seventy one kobo only (N906, 917, 595.71) with minimum of 2% monthly payment shortfall in the month of September, 2021 and maximum of 11.2% in the month of August, 2022 from the state pensioners\u2019 monthly entitlement,\u201d the statement read.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While addressing newsmen during the protest Comrade Kabiru Ado Minjibir, Kano NLC Chairman, pleaded to all defaulting MDA\u2019s on the remittance of 17% Monthly Contributions to immediately start full remittance from the month of September, 2022 and to also release substantial amount of funds at once to continue offsetting the outstanding liabilities.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC in solidarity with Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) came out enmass for a peaceful protest in Kano, over incessant deduction of the state pensioners monthly&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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