Ill-Treated Niger State Pensioners Adopt Measures for Redress PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
to pay their gratuities and pension was a blind man. Ladan Bello, 65, was a former biology teacher who retired in 2018 as a deputy director in the state's Ministry of Education.
Guided by his friend and fellow pensioner, Ibrahim Babadoko, he marched down to the Government House, some 400 metres from the Legbo Kutigi International Conference Centre, Minna, the muster point of the agitators. And as it has become a habit, he was in front of the line. But for the seventh time since the mass public protests began last year, Governor Abubakar Bello refused to meet the pensioners. Instead, an open mini-truck with a mounted gun, filled with anti-riot police officers, arrived at the scene, sirens blaring.
Later, a cancerous tissue crept into the surgically repaired eye. It was a small speck, forming around the retina, and doctors warned that unless the eye was surgically removed, he risked what they described as 'metastasis - that is cancer launching a secondary attack on the other eye. Eventually, the left eye, the one which was recovering and regaining vision after the first surgery, was removed.
In one of the letters, they wrote:"It is no longer news that the camp of retired senior citizens in Niger State is riddled with misery, anguish, disease, and death....No day passes without one or more of our sick members dying because he was penniless and could not access medical intervention; some others are at home bedridden or blind, victims of stroke or diabetes, whose lives are ebbing away in searing pain without any medical palliatives to make their last moments on earth peaceful.
"I live in my own house but my house is small and cannot accommodate both of us. If not, I would have asked him to join us when the eviction notice expires," Mr Bello said. The eviction notice expired in December, and following appeals, Mr Babadoko had been given up until the end of March 2023, to quit.
While the hydra-headed representation of state retirees was exacting unprecedented pressure on the government, it ironically also created an excuse the government used for why negotiations with the retirees stagnated. With many groups organising their own mass protests, the struggle became disorderly and chaotic. Thus the government exploited it to avoid holding any serious dialogue with any of the protest groups.
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