A retired soldier, Sapper Olusegun Soetan, has lamented that he and his colleagues from the South-West have not been paid their pensions after fighting in the 1967-1970 civil war.
Soetan, who said he was among the first intakes into the Nigerian Army in 1963, said he and his colleagues either voluntarily retired or were discharged between 1978 and 1992 in accordance with a military’s regime circular, No.4/1977, dated March 30, 1997.
According to him, Olonisakin and the Chairman, Military Pensions Board, Maj. Gen. A.B. Adamu, May last year, signed the New Guidelines on Administration of Military Pension for Personnel “to exclude us, the voluntary/discharged soldiers from the South-West states, from enjoying what personnel in the Armed Forces are enjoying now.”
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