50 ex-bankers die over unpaid benefits -Colleagues
Fifty ex-staff of non-consolidated banks in Nigeria have lost their lives following the failure of the Central Bank of
Nigeria to facilitate payment of their terminal benefits since they were disengaged in 2004.
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation and successive ministers of Finance, among others, Here & There Gists learnt, could not also facilitate payment of benefits for the now deceased staff.
A member of the registered trustees of the association of ex-staff of non-consolidated banks, Moses Okorie, disclosed this during an interview in Enugu, on Tuesday.
Okorie explained that the demise of his colleagues was caused by the hardship they had been passing through since they were asked to go home without their terminal benefits.
He said those of them, who are still alive, could no longer take care of their families.
He insisted that payment of their terminal benefits was long overdue.
Okorie said, “All of them have relocated to their villages because they could no longer afford to stay in the township.”
At the hearing of the matter on Tuesday, the National Industrial Court sitting in Enugu, presided over by Justice A.K Ibrahim, adjourned the suit brought before it by the about 14,000 ex-bank workers against the CBN, NDIC, Ministers
of Finance and others to January 29, 2014 for adoption of written addresses.
Nigeria to facilitate payment of their terminal benefits since they were disengaged in 2004.
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation and successive ministers of Finance, among others, Here & There Gists learnt, could not also facilitate payment of benefits for the now deceased staff.
A member of the registered trustees of the association of ex-staff of non-consolidated banks, Moses Okorie, disclosed this during an interview in Enugu, on Tuesday.
Okorie explained that the demise of his colleagues was caused by the hardship they had been passing through since they were asked to go home without their terminal benefits.
He said those of them, who are still alive, could no longer take care of their families.
He insisted that payment of their terminal benefits was long overdue.
Okorie said, “All of them have relocated to their villages because they could no longer afford to stay in the township.”
At the hearing of the matter on Tuesday, the National Industrial Court sitting in Enugu, presided over by Justice A.K Ibrahim, adjourned the suit brought before it by the about 14,000 ex-bank workers against the CBN, NDIC, Ministers
of Finance and others to January 29, 2014 for adoption of written addresses.
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