As VP, others disown president of ex-servicemen welfare association

A few days ago, the President of military veterans of the Association of Ex-Service Men and Family Welfare, MWO, Anthony Agbas, led some aggrieved members to the Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja, to protest non-payment of their 20-month pension arrears.

The protesters who appealed to the Federal Government to approve the payment of minimum wage arrears accruing to them from 2019 till date, demanded end to all deductions on the pension of all retired medical officers, and inclusion of officers who fought during the civil war into the military pension scheme.

While delivering a protest letter to officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Agbas lamented that over 97, 000 retired soldiers who were supposed to benefit from what he described as the Security Department Allowance, SDA, had been excluded.

He contended that only retirees from 2017 to date had been paid, leaving the majority of the ex-service men.

Discondant tunes

However, the story has taken a new twist as the Vice-President of the Association and Chairman of Bwari Chapter, retired Master Warrant Officer Samuel Unubi and the Secretary, retired Sergeant Thaddaeus Gershom, have disowned the President of MWO, describing the protest led by Agbas as uncalled for, self-serving among others, claiming that issues of the minimum wage, arrears of pension and debarment allowances, were being attended to by the Military Pensions Board, MPB.

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