Alex Otti berates Abia govt over non-payment of pensioners

Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti has berated the state government over non-payment of the state pen­sioners’ emoluments, say­ing it is an offence against God.
Otti said that pension­ers are like parents and that anybody who does not respect his or her par­ents was courting God’s trouble, stressing that the Bible made it explicit that children should honour their fathers and moth­ers that their days may be long but regretted that that was not the case with Abia State government in its treatment of pension­ers.
Otti who stated this while addressing pension­ers in the state capital, Umuahia, described pen­sioners as people who worked diligently for the nation in their prime and ought to be taken care of in their retirement.
He expressed sadness that retirees in the state who should have been en­joying the fruits of their la­bour were made to suffer by the same government they served meritoriously.
“The situation of pen­sioners in the state is heart rending because these are old men and women who served the state with all their strength at their prime and when it is time to reap the fruits of their labour, somebody is denying them.