The attention of Military Pensions Board has been drawn to numerous online information circulating among its pensioners stating wrong figures for the implementation of harmonised military pension.
The Board while
thanking the Federal Government for approving the harmonization of
Military Pension, wishes to categorically state as follows:
a. Harmonization
is not pension increment rather deliberate effort to bridge the gap in
pensions between certain ranks of pensioners who retired before and
after consolidation of salaries in July 2010. Therefore, pensioners
should endeavour to find out the actual gap between these categories of
pensioners to avoid speculation.
b. The mostly
affected rank brackets for harmonization are Private to Sergeant as
well as Brigadier General and above. The harmonization takes effect from
August 2016. However, Pension Review Committee under the auspices of
the Chief of Defence Staff is working assiduously to review military
pension for all retirees.
c. MPB in
conjunction with National Salary Income and Wages Commission are
working to ensure that approved table by Federal Government is applied
during implementation.
Consequently,
Military Pensioners and other stakeholders are advised to disregard
unofficial figures being circulated for the harmonization of military
pensions.
SignedFlight Lieutenant Ikenna Ezendu
Public Relations Officer
Military Pension Board
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