At least, 3000 prospective retirees from Edo and Delta States are participating in the ongoing verification and enrolment exercise of the National Pension Commission (PENCOM), holding in Benin City, Edo State.
The pre-retirement documentation exercise attracted employees in the service of the Federal Government Treasury Funded Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA’s) who are due to retire from service between January and December 2019.
Speaking on the sidelines of the pre-retirement documentation exercise, Mr. Peter Aghaowa, PENCOM’s Head of Corporate Communications, said the commission is ever committed to ensuring better service delivery to retirees.
He said the commission was also committed to ensuring that all eligible retirees across the country in 2019 were documented ahead of the disbursement of their pensions and gratuities.
Aghaowa, however, advised all the prospective retirees to avail themselves of the opportunity to be captured in the ongoing verification exercise to avoid omission in any form.
He said the exercise was scheduled to hold simultaneously across 15 centres nationwide.
The commission, he added, had earlier requested prospective retirees from the MDAs to come with all originals and photocopies of their documents for verification and confirmation of enrolment into the system.
“We have also requested all Pension Desk Officers of each MDA to make themselves available at the various designated centres to authenticate the documents and endorse the retirement bond form of each potential retiree.,’ he added.
But, some intending retirees who participated in the exercise have expressed confidence in PENCOMs ability to ensure service delivery in spite of the recent controversy over alleged embezzlement of pension funds.
Some of the respondents disclosed that they were still confident that their life savings were safer with PENCOM.
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