Pensioners of the defunct National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) and Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have taken to the streets to protest the non-payment of their gratuity and pension arrears running into billions of Naira for over 20 years.

The pensioners were seen carrying placards with various inscriptions, asking the Federal Government’s agency in charge, the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorates (PTAD), to pay all their gratuity and pension arrears.

They alleged that PTAD failed to pay them despite verified information that the money had been released to the agency by the central authority.

Justifying the protest, the group’s Coordinator, OLADOTUN AYODEJI, alleged that PTAD has failed to do the needful for the over 10,900 pensioners for the past 20 years.