Guardian

EDO State Commissioner in the Public Complaints Commission (PCC), Oladele Bankole-Balogun, has said that petitions from pensioners top the over 600 petitions the body received from the state in the last one year.

Speaking with journalists in Benin City Tuesday, Bankole-Balogun assured the petitioners that their cases would not be bogged down by bureaucracy because, “this is a constitutional commission with great powers to investigate, discipline and sanction also.

“I can assure you that if we ever get to a point that an agency is getting recalcitrant, we will use the force of the constitutional backing of this commission to ensure that the right thing is done, so we must not be looked at like any other government agency. My message to Nigeria is that this commission will not shy away from social justice and equity.”

While commending the Chief Commissioner of the PCC, Justice George Uloko (rtd), for repositioning the commission to carry out its duties effectively, he stressed that some of the complaints from the state lacked merit, some were really serious issues ranging from contractual matters, employment and non-payment of pensions, which is a major issue, to sheer administrative tyranny.