No fewer than four pensioners were on Tuesday rushed to an undisclosed hospital as they slumped during a protest march in Owerri, the Imo state capital.
The retirees had blocked roads leading in and out of the state government house, demanding that the Governor Hope Uzodinma administration pay them their pensions and gratuities.
One of the retirees, Mrs Margret Onuoha, who was revived, told journalists that despite retiring as a director on Grade Level 14, the government had continued to frustrate her. The Chairman, Pensioners Intervention Committee in the state, Iyke Ohaneje, said that the government was not sincere to the retirees.
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