AMILOADED MEDIA HUB NEWS UPDATE
….’exercise will be conducted for bedridden pensioners through telephone’
The Osun State Government has announced that the bedridden and healthy-challenged pensioners in the state will now have their audit exercise conducted through telephone, AMILOADED reports.
In a statement issued by Oluomo Kolapo Alimi,
Honourable Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, on Monday, said Pensioners outside the state and the country at the moment no longer need to travel down to Osun State as they will also be having their screening through the telephone and video call.
The statement reads, “Osun State Government has directed that all bedridden and healthy-challenged pensioners will henceforth have their audit exercise conducted through telephone, and as such, will no longer be required to be physically present at the venue of the screening exercise.
“Pensioners outside the state at the moment no longer need to travel down to Osun State as they will also be having their screening through the telephone.
“Additionally, pensioners in the diaspora will also be screened only through video calls.
“In line with the above, the Pension Board is expected to make available all the particulars, especially pictures of pensioners to the Consultant, for ease of identification during the video call screenings.
“The above directives take immediate effect.”
AMILOADED had earlier reported that the Pensioners in Osun State appealed to the State government for the decentralization of the ongoing screening of its workforce including retirees.
The is because some of the aged retirees collapsed on Monday within the premises of the Center for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo, venue of the ongoing screening.
It took the intervention of the medical Personnel of the State Ambulance Service to revive and stablize the victims.
Retirees, numbering about 2,000 old men and women who are visibly aged, frail and in some cases sick, were at the venue for the screening exercise.
A number of them who could not withstand long time standing were seen either, lying down, sleeping or sitting on the bare floor to avoid eventuality.
Many of the pensioners were visibly angry for what they described as inhuman treatment by the consultant in charge of the audit exercise.
They decried the arrangement and the eventual treatment of their colleagues who came for the exercise from across the State despite the harsh economic situation occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal.
Though, they agreed that the exercise was desirable, but were of the opinion that the process would have been made easier if it were to be done on local government or zonal basis.
The staff audit was earlier suspended for weeks by the state House of Assembly over inhuman treatment meted to the civil servants by the consultant in charge, Saadat Bakri-Ottun but the suspension was lifted after she promised to correct her mistakes.
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