Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance
(APGA) in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti has berated the state
government over non-payment of the state pensioners’
emoluments, saying it is an offence against God.
Otti said that pensioners are like parents and that anybody
who does not respect his or her parents was courting God’s
trouble, stressing that the Bible made it explicit that children
should honour their fathers and mothers that their days may
be long but regretted that that was not the case with Abia
State government in its treatment of pensioners.
Otti who stated this while addressing pensioners in the state
capital, Umuahia, described pensioners as people who worked
diligently for the nation in their prime and ought to be taken
care of in their retirement.
He expressed sadness that retirees in the state who should
have been enjoying the fruits of their labour were made to
suffer by the same government they served meritoriously.
“The situation of pensioners in the state is heart rending
because these are old men and women who served the state
with all their strength at their prime and when it is time to
reap the fruits of their labour, somebody is denying them.
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