Following consistent disagreements between Federal Civil Service Pensioners (FCSP) and the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), FCSP has announced its intention to pull out of the NUP to form an independent full fledged union. The leadership of the FCSP which made this known in a press briefing on Thursday also revealed that it has written to the Ministry of Labour and Employment to stop the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) from paying its check-off dues to the NUP. Disclosing this, the National Chairman of the FCSP, Comrade Omeiza Sunday, said the protracted impasse between his group and the NUP was occasioned by the refusal of the National Headquarters of the NUP to give them the commensurate allocation of 55per cent share of the 1per cent Check-off Dues accruable to the FCSPB.Comrade Sunday noted that the Police Pension Department under PTAD, Customs, Immigration and Prisons Department under PTAD, Parastatals Pension Department, and all the 36 councils of the union which affiliates under the NUP umbrella are collect their Check-off Dues direct from the source of payment. “But the case is not the same with the Federal Civil Service Pensioners. This exceptional act of deprivation of the rights and privileges of the branch calls for curious concern,” he said.

The Sun