The chairman of Taraba State
chapter of the Nigerian Labour
Congress (NLC), Comrade Gambo
Peter, has disclosed that the state
government was owing retired
civil servants over N11 billion
pension and gratuity arrears.

He told our reporter in an
interview that thhe state civil servants and local government workers
that retired from service in 2015
were yet to get their gratuity and
pension benefits.

Comrade Peter said the non-
payment had caused social trauma
and economic hardships that had
led to the death of some of the
retirees.
Comrade Peter therefore called
on the state government to pay
the retired civil servants their
benefits in order to reduce the
hardship they were facing.