Pensioners in Imo State under the platform of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) Imo State Chapter have instituted legal actions against Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state and four other state officials at the National Industrial Court over the withholding and slashing of their pensions.
The claimants, Imo NUP, and three of its officials: Messrs Gideon Ezeji, Livinus Ashiegbu and Fabian Agba want the court to declare as unconstitutional, a letter issued to Imo pensioners by the state government cutting accrued sums due pensioners by sixty percent.
The originating summons filed at the National Industrial Court of Nigeria Owerri Judicial Division, marked NICN/OW/144/2017, containing claims and details of the suit was made available to our correspondent in Owerri, the Imo state capital Sunday.
The pensioners argued that section 210(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) states that pensioners in Imo public service have rights to pension.
The summons filed by Barr. Wisdom Durueke, equally urged the court to declare that Governor Okorocha acted unconstitutionally when he slashed the accrued sums due to the pensioners in the public service of Imo by sixty percent.
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