2 Protesting Pensioners Slumped In Makurdi Today (photos)

Two protesting pensioners of Benue State today slumped right in front of the Government House in Makurdi while insisting Governor Samuel Ortom must pay them.

But the leader of the concerned pensioner, Mr. Kyado said no week passes without four to five pensioners dying in penury over the 23 local government regions of their state as a result of hardship arising from hunger, disease and starvation.

The slumped pensioners

The victims who could be in their early seventies were amongst a huge selection of pensioners who’d storm Governor’s office for a peaceful protest staged by a huge selection of pensioners to press home their over eleven months arrears owed them by their state government.

The eleven months being owed based on the pensioners covers November 2014 to April 2015 the time scale they said the us government failed to handle utilizing the N28 billion bailout funds doled to their state by the us government to tackle backlog of salaries owed state workers.