The National Union of Pensioners in Kaduna has appealed to Governor Uba Sani to take urgent steps to pay the outstanding N20 billion pension liabilities it owes.

NUP secretary Alhassan Balarabe-Musa made the call in an interview on Thursday in Kaduna to coincide with the 2025 International Workers’ Day.

“The governor has paid over N3.6 billion in 2023. In all, he has paid over N10.4 billion from then to date. We are grateful that he has settled part of the pension liabilities he has inherited, but more efforts should be made in this direction,” said the NUP chieftain.

However, Mr Balarabe-Musa lamented that those under the contributory pension scheme had yet to receive a Kobo from 2017 to date.

According to him, those disengaged in 2017, especially under the local governments, have yet to be paid as their records are still missing.

Mr Balarabe-Musa also called on Sani to implement the N32,000 pension increase for the pensioners as directed by a recent federal government circular.

He said, “So if the pension increase is implemented, Kaduna state pensioners will receive a minimum monthly pension of N62,000.00. I want the governor to be the second one to implement it as only Yobe is the only state that has so far done so across Nigeria.

“He should emulate his predecessor, who was the first governor to implement the N30,000 minimum pension in February 2020.”

(NAN)