Cross River retirees protest non-payment of gratuity in Calabar

Over one hundred retirees in Calabar, the Cross River State Capital are demanding for the immediate payment of their gratuity which has not been paid for the past five years.

The retirees in a peaceful protest to the governor’s office carried placards with inscriptions like; we are demanding for the right payment of our gratuity, Retirees are dying of hunger and neglect.
Other placards read; Pay us our gratuity so we can access medical attention, why have we been reduced to and forced to become beggars and borrowers’, why?.

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