Oyo State Government says it has paid a total of N8bn to 3,783 retirees as gratuity under the state’s civil service, judicial service, teaching, non-teaching up till October 2020.
According to the state government’s disclosure on Monday, the gratuity was also paid to the local government service commission and primary school.
The Commissioner for Establishment and Training, Prof. Daud Sangodoyin, made the disclosure in an interview with journalists in Ibadan.
Sangodoyin said the process of writing to go into retirement and getting issued pension authority certificate as well as being eligible to be paid gratuity was foolproof.
He added that 1,304 among the retirees that belonged to the teaching, non-teaching, civil servants and those from the judicial service commission had been paid till October with N3.6bn.
“We have paid 1,304 retirees their gratuities from June 2019 to October 2020 and the amount paid is N3.6bn. The beneficiaries are in the categories of teaching, non-teaching, the judicial service commission and the civil servants.
“The process is simple, you write that you are retiring and follow the due process till the papers get to the Auditor-General’s office and it gets back to the Ministry of Establishment where the pension authority certificate will be issued to the recipient, then the person is said to be eligible and on queue for his or her gratuity.
“There is no need for anybody to approach a middleman to help. It is first come, first served. We have reeled out helpline numbers for anyone that has questions or has seen or heard something against the laid down rules of engagement,” he stated.
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