Popular Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie, and 202 retired staff of the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) have started receiving their pensions and other retirement benefits 25 years after they left service.
The development followed a memo by the ABS Board, led by Mr Emeka Maduegbuna, under the tenures of two Commissioners of Information, Mr Tony Onyima and Uju Nwogu, to the governor and the need to pay the retired staff their entitlements.
Confirming this report the Anambra State Head of Service, Harry Udu noted that the governor saw the anomalies noting that it amounts to injustice for them to be ignored even when they are senior citizens of the state and country in general.
Also speaking the Managing Director of the ABS Chief Uche Nworah explained that the total sum is N300 million, adding that the governor has also approved staff promotion which has not been done in last 12 years.
He noted that the promotion of staff would now be carried out every two years in order to inject the much needed tonic and motivation into the system.
It would be recalled that ABS staff and the Anambra Newspapers Ltd have not been paid pensions since the creation of the new Anambra State, a development that has continued to put successive administrations in the crosshairs of the Nigerian labour Congress (NLC).
Continuing, Nworah noted that the affected pensioners have been visiting the Government House to express their gratitude to the governor over his kind gesture.
