Senate chastised the Nigerian military on Tuesday for the delay in paying insurance payments to deceased and retired members through its Committee on Code of Conduct, Ethics, and Public Petitions.
It explicitly said that 174 families in the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) alone are bearing the brunt of these delays, which is unacceptable.
At the same time, it stopped NAF officers under Wing Commander Mohammed Saleh from apprehending Master Warrant Rukayat Ajoke Ishola, who petitioned the Senate about her husband’s insurance benefits not being paid and about her husband’s death in April 2016 and the abuse she claimed she had suffered at the hands of Air Force officials.
After reviewing a petition against NAF submitted by Master Warrant Officer Rukayat Ishola, the Senate expressed dissatisfaction with the military’s tardiness in paying insurance payments to its deceased or retired members.
In the petition, Ishola claimed that NAF purposefully delayed her late husband’s insurance benefits and that her kid was not allowed to receive school tuition like other children of deceased military officers and men.
She said:
“I was forced and traumatised to go on absence without leave, AWOL, because my late husband’s insurance benefits were deliberately not paid. My child was denied school fee payment by NAF in line with military tradition and I faced unwarranted persecutions from some officers and life-threatening postings.”
She went on to say that she left her duty station in order to save her life due to claimed abuse she received from some cops following the death of her spouse in April 2016.
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