{"id":14759,"date":"2015-07-23T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14759"},"modified":"2015-07-23T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:49:05","slug":"we-are-dying-ibc-pensioners-cry-out-to-imo-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14759","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Are Dying\u201d IBC Pensioners  Cry Out To Imo Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14784\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imo-specialist-hospital.jpg\" alt=\"imo specialist hospital\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14784\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imo-specialist-hospital.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imo-specialist-hospital-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBefore the Owelle Rochas Okorocha-led government came on board, the Imo Broadcasting corporation, Owerri pensioners were owed more than  thirty months pension arrears.<br \/>\nIt became an  unenshrined law that any staff of the broadcast outfit who retired queued on the line to wait for  turns. Life became so unbearable that it became a curse or taboo for any IBC staff to think of retirement. Many according to records, died before having a taste of their sweat.<br \/>\nHowever, at  the death of  a retirees, the bereaved family was given a paltry sum to at  least  bury their dead with unfulfilled promises that  the rest would be paid soon.<br \/>\nBut respite came  the way  of the retirees when the Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha came to their rescue when he took over the payment of  the pensioners from the month of March, 2014. The pensioners heaved a sigh of relief.<br \/>\nThe state government started paying the monthly arrears owed  them alongside  the current month. This gesture did  not however last  long as  the arrears have piled up again while since January 2015 the pensioners have not received any  dime.<br \/>\nThe pensioners who had earlier described Owelle as a \u201cDaniel who has come to judgement\u201d are bewildered as  to why the Governor raised their morals high and sharpened  their appetite only to abandon them mid way.<br \/>\nA pensioner  who confided in  Trumpeta under condition of anonymity said, \u201cyou see my son, we are so frail that we cannot do any protest. We cannot even go on strike. The only weapon we have  to seek redress is Appeal and  so help  us appeal to Owelle to look at our side as we are dying\u201d, the old man sobbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Owelle Rochas Okorocha-led government came on board, the Imo Broadcasting corporation, Owerri pensioners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14785,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759\/revisions\/14785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}