{"id":59169,"date":"2025-01-08T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59169"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:35:04","slug":"ex-military-officers-stage-protest-in-abuja-over-unpaid-entitlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/08\/ex-military-officers-stage-protest-in-abuja-over-unpaid-entitlements\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Military Officers Stage Protest in Abuja Over Unpaid Entitlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Retired military officers staged a protest in Abuja yesterday, blocking the entrance to the Ministry of Finance in Central Area to demand full payment of their outstanding entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, which disrupted movement around the area, saw the retirees erect canopies and place chairs at the ministry\u2019s gate, preventing staff from driving in.<\/p>\n<p>The protest follows a similar one in December 2024, during which the retirees shut down the ministry over the federal government\u2019s failure to settle their claims.<\/p>\n<p>Despite receiving 50% of their entitlements after that protest, the retirees claim the government has failed to pay the remaining balance.<\/p>\n<p>They are demanding payments of 20-28% salary increments from January to November 2024, outstanding palliatives for October 2023 to November 2024, an additional \u20a632,000 added to their pensions, bulk payment of the Security Debarment Allowance, and a refund of pension deductions from medically boarded soldiers\u2019 salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the protesters, Chairman of the Military Pensions Board (MPB), Air Vice Marshal Paul Irumheson, assured them that the Ministry of Finance had credited the Board for onward disbursement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy this evening, you will start receiving alerts. I can confirm that we have received the money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please go back home; your payment will be made,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The assurance came after Col. Azubuike Nas (Rtd), leader of the protesters, expressed frustration over repeated delays, insisting that the retirees had been taken for granted for too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Retired military officers staged a protest in Abuja yesterday, blocking the entrance to the Ministry of Finance in Central Area to demand full payment of their outstanding entitlements. The demonstration, which disrupted movement around the area, saw the retirees erect canopies and place chairs at the ministry\u2019s gate, preventing staff from driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":59170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59171,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59169\/revisions\/59171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}