Radio Nigeria Pensioners Resolve To Join Naked Protest

Pensioners of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) yesterday said they were set to join the naked protest scheduled for Monday.

National financial secretary of the pensioners, Bola Popoola, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos.
The Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria had on Friday hinted on its planned nationwide naked protest.

The coalition’s national chairman, Mr Mukaila Ogunbote, had said the move was to press home their demand for payment of members’ outstanding pension increment arrears and palliative allowances.

Yesterday, Popoola said FRCN pensioners within the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS) and under the Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria were left with no other option but to be part of the protest.
He said joining the protest was to further assert payment of their accrued arrears from the N32,000 minimum pension.

“Our resolve to participate in the naked protest stems also from outright non-payment of the N25,000 palliative for six months, as approved since 2023 by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“Such is not flying with our colleagues in diaspora, which is the reason they have vowed to put their own naked protest on the international stage, wherever they are domiciled on Monday, Dec. 8,” he said.