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Commercial Activities Grounded In Benin As Pensioner Protest, Demand Payment Of Gratuities

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Pensioners in their hundreds on Wednesday took over the Benin City Centre popularly called Ring Road to protest the non-payment of their gratuities since they retired from active service.

The protest led to heavy gridlock in the City centre and major adjoining roads.

Dressed in all black attire, the senior citizens said the current administration did not continue the payment of their gratuities from 2012 where the last administration of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole stopped.

INFO DAILY reports that the Oshiomhole government started the payment of gratuities from 1998 till 2012 as at the time he left office in 2016.

Speaking on behalf of the protesters, Amadin Okoro said: “We are aggrieved; a lot of us are dying. A lot of us are not well, many of them are supposed to go for operations, no money. Besides gratuity, local government retirees are owed arrears and their gratuities since 2008. But for the state, it has not paid since 2012 till date.

“Our appeal to the governor is that he should pay us so that we can enjoy the fruits of our labour, which we suffered for 35 years.

“In fairness we receive our pensions monthly but the crux of the matter is our gratuity.”

Another protester, Esther Ehigie said she retired in 2012, adding that she and others were screened and invited for a meeting in 2017 where the authority for payment which is called yellow paper was collected from them but their money was not paid.

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Reacting to the development, the Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare said the government of Governor Godwin Obaseki has been paying the gratuities of all those who have retired since he became governor and that provision has already been made to clear the backlog.

He said: “We have gone very far to tackle the backlog, we made promises to the pensioners that they we will be paid their arrears, which we have done. We made promise that they will get their pensions as at when due, that we have done, the third leg of that is to clear the gratuity arrears, which is a huge sum of money, we have a plan in place which is coming to fruition, in the 2023 budget.

“We made provision to clear some of these gratuities and those pensioners have been put in batches so that they can be paid and very soon this will be effected.

“We implore our pensioners to exercise more patience and restraint while the issues are being sorted out.”

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19-year-old Convicted For Dating, Impregnating 14-year-old Sister

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A 19-year-old man arraigned before Mutawatawa magistrate on charges of having sexual intercourse with his 14-year-old sister in Uzumba, Zimbabwe, has been convicted.

It was gathered that in January 2023, the 19-year-old man decided to take things a notch up bizarrely as he chatted with his sister. He asked his sister to be his girlfriend. Strangely, the 14-year-old admitted to feeling the same way for her brother.

The two decided to hit it off and start dating. They decided to keep their relationship under wraps, knowing how much trouble it would attract if ever known.

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During their relationship, the 19-year-old man convinced his sister to have sex with him. She agreed, and the two did the act on different occasions, both at home and in the garden. However, the girl later got pregnant and this was noticed by their grandmother.

Upon being questioned, she revealed her brother was responsible. The grandmother reported the case to the police, leading to the 19-year-old man’s arrest for incest. He appeared in a Mutawatawa Court, where the Magistrate sentenced him to 14 months in jail. Two months were struck off, and he will serve an effective 12 months.

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75-year Old Man Arrested For Defiling 8-year-old Girl In Anambra

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A 75-year-old barber, Nwankwo Nweke has been arrested for defiling an 8-year-old girl in Awka, the Anambra State capital.

The suspect, who hails from Isi Agu in Awka South Local Government Area of the state, confessed to the crime, claiming that ‘temptation that made him have carnal knowledge of the girl.’

The suspect pleaded for mercy and promised to be of good behaviour if the state government pardoned him.

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The parents of the victim, Mr John and Mrs Ogochukwu Ugwuanyi explained that they sent their child to get something at a nearby shop around 7pm. When she came back they noticed the items weren’t complete and asked her to return to the shop after which they started looking for her.

The parents stated that they quickly went to the shop to look for her but didn’t see her which prompted them to raise alarm over her sudden disappearance in the neighborhood.

Unknown to them, the suspect had already taken her to his house and told her not to answer her name.

They revealed that the suspect, who at the time was their neighbour, pushed the 8-year-old out of his room when he felt the search was over.

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On how they knew what transpired between their daughter and the suspect, Mr and Mrs Ugwuanyi said that when their daughter finally came back that night, they questioned her to know what happened.

She told them that the suspect lured her to his house with a promise to give her mango.

They noted that it was at that point that they involved security operatives before taking their child to the hospital.

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Outrage As Masquerades Brutally Flog Nurse Until She Falls In Gutter In Enugu [PHOTOS]

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A video of masquerades beating up a female nurse in Enugu has shocked viewers and sparked calls for justice.

The victim, identified as Blessing Ogbonna, was on her way to work at a private hospital in Nsukka when she was attacked on Sunday, April 28.

She was dressed in her nursing uniform and was riding on a motorcycle when the masquerades began flogging her until she fell from the bike and landed on the floor.

Even after she fell, they continued flogging her.

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She stood and ran but the masquerades refused to let go and they went after her and continued beating her until she fell into a gutter.

Outrage as masquerades brutally flog female nurse until she falls in a gutter in Enugu (video)

Passersby, who had tried to intervene when she was getting flogged, stepped in and pulled her out of the drainage after the flogging.

The video has sparked calls for the offending masquerades in the video to be disciplined.

See photos below:

Nurse Blessing

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