The House of Representatives has summoned all the relevant agencies in charge of non-payment of pensions and gratuities to retired Federal civil servants for nine months.
They are the Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), the Accountant General of the Federation, the Director-General of the National Pension Commission, and the Executive Secretary of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD).
These agencies are to appear before the committees on Pension and Public Service Matters and provide explanations for the non-payment.
The House mandated the Committees on Pension, Public Service Matters, and Legislative Compliance to ensure compliance with its resolution and report back within four weeks for further legislative action.
This was followed by the adoption of a motion on the Need to Investigate Non-Payment of Pension Arrears of Retired Federal Civil Servants by PTAD, moved by Sergius Ose Ogun.
The House said pensioners under the defined benefits scheme of the PTAD are reportedly owed monthly pensions and gratuities for a cumulative period of nine months.
It added that it was disturbed by the claim that the failure of the PTAD to pay pensioners under the Defined Benefits Scheme for the said period of nine months is a result of technological glitches.
It said the failure of the PTAD to pay pensioners’ monthly pensions and gratuities based on technological glitches amounts to gross incompetence and ineffectiveness on the part of PTAD.
