{"id":31774,"date":"2024-05-12T21:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ebonyi-government-clears-2099-retirees-gratuities\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T21:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T21:00:03","slug":"ebonyi-government-clears-2099-retirees-gratuities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ebonyi-government-clears-2099-retirees-gratuities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebonyi government clears 2,099 retirees\u2019 gratuities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Ebonyi State Government has cleared 2,099 retirees\u2019 gratuities from 1996 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday by the Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Jude Chikadibia Okpor, in Abakiliki.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, May 9, 2024, the last batch (Phase 11) of 256 retirees from 1996 and 2021, had been cleared and paid in full, for a total gratuity of three hundred and ninety-four million, nine hundred and seven thousand, seven hundred and eighty-four naira, and ninety-one kobo (N394,907,784.91).<\/p>\n<p>Also cleared and paid during the seven-day exercise were 277 retirees between 2022 and 2023, with the total gratuity paid amounting to one billion, thirty million, nine hundred and seventy-two thousand, eight hundred and seventy naira, and five kobo (N1,030,972,870.05).<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the Ebonyi State Government has cleared all arrears of gratuity owed retirees from the creation of the state in 1996 to 2023, with a total gratuity sum of five billion, thirty-six million, two hundred and eleven thousand, one hundred and four naira, and six Kobo (N5,036,211,140.6) paid to a total of 2,099 retirees.<\/p>\n<p>Further breakdown of the total sum and beneficiaries revealed that the Nwifuru administration in the first phase of the exercise paid a total of three billion, six hundred and thirty thousand, four hundred and eighty-five naira, and sixty-four kobo (N3,610,330,485.64) to 1,566 retirees, who patiently awaited their entitlement from 1996 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 533 retirees were cleared and paid a total gratuity of one billion, four hundred and twenty-five million, eight hundred and eighty thousand, six hundred and fifty-four naira, and ninety-six kobo (N1, 425,880,654.96) in the second phase.<\/p>\n<p>Ebonyi government clears 2,099 retirees\u2019 gratuities<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebonyi State Government has cleared 2,099 retirees\u2019 gratuities from 1996 to 2023. This was contained in a statement made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651,15],"tags":[654,180],"class_list":["post-31774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebonyi","category-news","tag-ebonyi","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}