OPINION: Help! PenCom Has Gone On Sabbatical, Nigerian Pensioners Are In Pain
Nigeria’s National Pension Commission (PenCom) had been on sabbatical while Elder State-Men which it was created to cater for were in pains, despite the facts that The Pencom Acts of 2014 as amended had taken care of some of the shortcomings in that of 2004 and had enriched the powers and privileges of PenCom on the affairs of Contributory Pensioners with their former employers and Pension Managers, yet she (The PenCom) refuses to be proactive in the affairs of Nigeria’s contributory pensioners. The nonchalant attitudes of PenCom to its mandate has led to series of communication among the Associations of Contributory Pensioners, their former employers (Federal Ministries/Agencies/Divisions), Federal legislators and PenCom, yet the seemingly almighty but truly toothless PenCom has refused to listen/reason or take any positive step to resolve the problems, and instead the management has kept itself incommunicado, daring anyone question it, at a time no Ministry/Department/Agencies ...