By Our Correspondent
National Association of Military Pensioners has warned that the Presidential election would not be allowed to hold on March 28, this year unless the four years arrears of its members were paid before then.
The association, in a statement signed by its National President, Eromafuru Benson (rtd), warned that its members would disrupt the election in protest against the failure of President Goodluck Jonathan to pay their arrears despite series of memos seeking for his intervention in the delayed payment of their arrears.
The military Pensioners therefore called on former Presidents, ex-Generals to prevail on President Jonathan to pay their arrears and save the country another round of crisis before and during the forthcoming elections.
“We use this medium to call on well meaning Nigerians, ex-Presidents and Former Generals not to allow this issue to degenerate into something difficult so that we can have a peaceful, credible, free and fair election”, it added.
They said that military pensioners would resist a situation where they were reduced to third class citizens in the country having fought to make the country one only to be paid with disdain by the authority.
It recalled that some of its members lost limbs and other parts of their bodies and needed to go for regular medical check-up but lacked the financial power for that because of the refusal of Federal Government to pay their pension arrears for four years now.
The association warned that its members were ready to resist all the security agencies combined recalling that they had seen death in the war-fronts before and was not afraid of being killed again by their country.
By his non-challant attitude towards the pensioners, the association noted that President Jonathan and his ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) does not deserve re-election in March 28 adding “we cannot continue under these group of heartless rulers”.
