Verification Exercise: Retired Primary School Teachers Cry to Okorocha for Assistance

Retired primary school teachers in Imo State have cried to Governor Rochas Okorocha to rescue them from the severe agony which they have been subjected to over one week in the on-going pensioners data capturing exercise going on in the 27 Local Government Area.
Speaking to the press at Iho, Ikeduru Local Government Area, a retired headmistress, Mrs. A.C. Opara lamented that they have been coming to the Council Headquarters from their various places of residence for the past one week without achieving anything meaningful. She stated that the elderly men and women are wasting their energy, time and resources while attending the ferication exercise, stressing that apart from the severe hunger and hardship which they suffer, they are also subjected to road hazards.
Mrs. Opara disclosed that only one data capturing machine is being used by the verification exercise officials to attend to hundreds of retired primary school teachers, in Ikeduru Local Government. She appealed to Governor Rochas Okorocha to urgently ameliorate the sufferings of these pensioners by making more machines available in the rural areas. She noted that the plight of retired primary school teachers under the ongoing, verification exercise is the same in other rural areas where only one data capturing machine is at work and the helpless pensioners, continue to report at the Local Government Headquarters inspite of the hardship which they encounter daily.
Many pensioners who spoke to the press decried the situation whereby the Governor made it publicly know that he has cleared the 12 years arrears owed pensioners by Chief Achike Udenwa and Chief Ikedi Ohakirn. The pensioners appealed to Owelle Okorocha to remember the retired primary school teachers and pay them their outstanding pensions. The pensioners said the verification exercise has been a recurring issue under Owelle Okorocha administration without any result.