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Workers Applaud Pension Scheme Computerisation
All Africa
August 26, 2004
Bayelsa State civil servants have commended the state government for initiating the computerisation of the pension scheme.
Workers who spoke on the scheme expressed their readiness to cooperate with the state in its bid to secure the future of the workers in the state through a hassle free pension scheme.
The workers expressed the view that the computerisation of the pension scheme has allayed initial fear which most of the workers had as regards the genuineness and transparency of the scheme.
The computerisation of the pension scheme was initiated by the government. With the computerisation, workers' names, fingerprints and photographs are stored electronically in a system to enable easy access and thus reduce bureaucracy to a minimal level. This initiative will also give each local government the opportunity to log on to the computer and have access to the scheme through the internet.
The Bayelsa State Government under the leadership of Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha set up the pension scheme as part of efforts to ensure that workers in the state have a future they can look up to, a future when they will not depend on the society to survive.
According to the administrator, Mr. Ebitare Otrofanowei, "the pension scheme is part of government's effort to see that civil servants in the state who have put in selfless service to the development of the state enjoy the benefit of their retirement". He also disclosed that welfare of civil servants in and out of service is of paramount concern to government.
Besides, Mr. Otrofanowei explained that contribution to the scheme will not be by workers' alone as government is also to contribute a certain percentage to each worker's account.
The idea of the pension scheme, as envisioned by Governor Diepreye Alamie -yeseigha is to put an end to the era when ex-service men and women continue to wait for years to collect their entitlement from the government. With this scheme, workers in the state will have something to fall back on after disengagement from service.
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