Aiyedatiwa Approves N1.2bn for Payment of Backlog of Pensioners’ Gratuity

Fidelis David in Akure

Ondo State Governor, Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has approved the sum of N1.2billion to fully offset gratuity owed by the former state Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko led-administration in 2014.

A statement made available to journalists yesterday by the Press Officer, Office of the Head of Service, Sina Adeyeye, quoted the governor as saying that the move was part of efforts of the state government to settle the backlog of gratuity of state retirees.

He emphasised that the distribution of cheque to beneficiaries would be flagged off by the governor at an event to be held at the Cocoa Conference Hall of the Governor’s Office, Akure, on January 11, 2024, by 3p.m.

According to Adeyeye, “It would be recalled that all 2013 set of state retirees’ gratuity had been cleared last year while 2011 and a fractional part of 2012 set of the local government retirees were also cleared.

“This is apart from about N320million (monthly) benefits, totalling about N2.7billion (yearly) that the government has set aside for the settlement of all other categories of the pensioners’ benefits.”