Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State recently expressed inability of the state government to pay retirees` pension and gratuity burden successive administrations had been battling with since the state’s creation.
The government made the remarks at a forum of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Enugu, said the state had the highest pension burden in the South East.
“The effect of pension and gratuities on us are so high and more than any other state in the region and this arises from the status of the Coal City as the headquarters of the former eastern region,” he said.
“Today, there is no money to meet some of these obligations and many more but the masses do not want to hear that.”
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