EX-CIVIL SERVANTS PROTEST NON PAYMENT OF BENEFITS
By NATION REPORTER
FORMER civil servants who went on voluntary separation in 1999 yesterday protested at Cabinet Office demanding payment of their retirement packages.
The over 3, 500 retirees who separated with the government under an International Monetary Fund Programme (IMF) programme to downside the civil service, claimed that they have up to now not been paid their dues.
The affected retirees gathered at Cabinet Office and demanded that they be paid immediately to ease their sufferings.
They have lamented the continued failure by successive governments to honour their promise to pay the retirement packages with many of their colleagues having died leaving the money behind.
But acting Secretary to Cabinet Patrick Kangwa has called for patience among the protesting retirees saying their matter is receiving adequate attention from the government.
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