Nigeria, Aug. 14 -- Retired staff members of the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) have lamented non-payment of their gratuities for over nine years.

ABS is a radio and television station owned and managed by the Anambra State Government.

The retirees, under the auspices of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), ABS Chapter, cried out over the alleged non-payment of the benefits in a statement issued last week after their meeting in Anambra State.

In the statement signed by the Chairman of the ABS Chapter of the NUP, Bony Ezeani, the union described the non-payment of the benefits as "inhuman and unacceptable," alleging that retirees who devoted their greater part of their productive years to the state were being left to suffer in old...