By PETER SICHALIGOVERNMENT should start paying outstanding pension benefits to retirees who have continued dying due to destitution, Next Avenue for Retirees in Zambia (NARIZ) president Albert Muyembe has said.Mr Mayembe said the UPND Government should consider paying outstanding pension benefits for retirees as a matter of priority.“We appeal to new administration to consider paying us our long outstanding pension benefits,” he said.Mr Mayembe said many retirees had died and left only files gathering dust at various pension schemes while their families were wallowing in poverty.Meanwhile, Mr Mayembe congratulated the President-elect Hakainde Hichilema for emerging victorious in the just ended general elections.He said the outgoing Government had no political will to pay pensioners, hence the need fort he new administration to act“The outgoing regime had no political will to pay us our money but they paid themselves gratuity handsomely, hence leaving us behind completely,”Mr Mayembe said.He said Government consider quick disposal of all industrial relations […]
UNPAID RETIREES CRY TO NEW GOVT
