The Kaduna State College of Education Retirees Association has again appealed to the State Governor, Uba Sani, to ensure the prompt payment of their gratuities and pensions.

The appeal was contained in a communiqué jointly signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Association, Bulus Kajang, and Emmanuel Nkom, respectively, and made available to newsmen in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area, at the weekend.

They also appealed to have an audience with the governor, to table their plight before him, with a view to proffering solutions to the lingering hardship they have been exposed to for over seven years.

“We wrote a letter to him in July to intimate him about how prompt benefits were paid to retirees and how the unwarranted delay in the remittance of our entitlements has exposed us to untold hardship, after giving our most productive years in service.

“Most of our members cannot meet their basic needs, such as medical or utility bills, or pay their children’s school fees, adding that they best fit the description of vulnerable persons, and appealed that government’s palliatives should be provided for them too.

“The country’s dire economic situation was taking its toll on even those with means of income, and added that it is worse on the retirees who have nothing to fall back on, and begged the Governor to authorise payment of the long overdue entitlements,” the group pleaded. (The PUNCH)