Pensioners of the Federal Radio Company of Nigeria (FRCN) yesterday stated they have been set to hitch the bare protest scheduled for Monday.
Nationwide {financial} secretary of the pensioners, Bola Popoola, disclosed this in an announcement in Lagos.
The Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria had on Friday hinted on its deliberate nationwide bare protest.
The coalition’s nationwide chairman, Mr Mukaila Ogunbote, had stated the transfer was to press house their demand for cost of members’ excellent pension increment arrears and palliative allowances.
Yesterday, Popoola stated FRCN pensioners throughout the Outlined Profit Scheme (DBS) and below the Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria have been left with no different possibility however to be a part of the protest.
He stated becoming a member of the protest was to additional assert cost of their accrued arrears from the N32,000 minimal pension.
“Our resolve to take part within the bare protest stems additionally from outright non-payment of the N25,000 palliative for six months, as authorised since 2023 by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“Such is just not flying with our colleagues in diaspora, which is the rationale they’ve vowed to place their very own bare protest on the worldwide stage, wherever they’re domiciled on Monday, Dec. 8,” he stated.
