Pension/Gratuity: We Have Paid 3,783 Retirees N8b- – Oyo Govt.

The Oyo State Government has disclosed that a total of N8bn has been paid to 3,783 retirees as gratuity.

News Rain Nigeria gathered that in an interview on Monday, the Oyo State Commissioner for Establishment and Training, Prof. Daud Sangodoyin said that the State has paid a total of N8bn to 3,783 retirees as gratuity under the state’s civil service, judicial service, teaching, non-teaching, as well as the local government service commission and primary school up till October 2020.

Pension/Gratuity: We Have Paid 3,783 Retirees N8b- – Oyo Govt.

According to Sangodoyin the process of writing to go into retirement and getting issued a pension authority certificate as well as being eligible to be paid gratuity was foolproof. Adding that 1,304 among the retirees that belonged to the teaching, non-teaching, civil servants, and those from the judicial service commission had been paid till October with N3.6bn.

He said: “We have paid 1,304 retirees their gratuities from June 2019 to October 2020 and the amount paid is N3.6bn. The beneficiaries are in the categories of teaching, non-teaching, the judicial service commission, and the civil servants.

“The process is simple, you write that you are retiring and follow the due process till the papers get to the Auditor-General’s office and it gets back to the Ministry of Establishment where the pension authority certificate will be issued to the recipient, then the person is said to be eligible and on queue for his or her gratuity.

“There is no need for anybody to approach a middleman to help. It is first-come, first-served. We have reeled out helpline numbers for anyone that has questions or has seen or heard something against the laid down rules of engagement.”