NPA pensioners threaten to drag chairman to ICPC

Pensioners of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) yesterday threatened to drag its National Chairman, Mr. Ayo Bimite to the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) over alleged illegal extortion of N2000 each for submission of Biometric Verification Number (BVN).

They alleged that the Federal Government through NPA requested for BVN to update their bank accounts and to flush out ghost pensioners but did not ask them to pay N2000 each for BVN form.

Some of the leaders of pensioners in the Southsouth, Southeast who visited the Port Harcourt office of Vintage Press Limited, the Publisher of The Nation newspapers said they were joining 11,000 NPA pensioners nationwide to protest the extortion.

The Chairman, NPA Pensioners, Rivers State chapter, Mr. Chris Nnamene insisted that there was no time the Federal Government or the management of NPA ask pensioners to pay N2000 before they could submit their BVN.

Contacted on phone, the National Chairman, Mr. Ayo Bimite said he was in Lagos and added that all allegations against him were not true.

He said he was going to report the matter to the appropriate authority and come back to Port Harcourt to brief our reporter on the true position on the matter.