The Military High Command has set up a 5-man Standing Committee to address the demand of the military retirees who recently went on a protest over poor welfare.
This committee was constituted by the Ministry of Defence.
The Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau made this known during the interactive session on the weekly briefing of the ongoing military operations by the Armed Forces of Nigeria across the country in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
General Gusau said that the retirees had met the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, and the modalities had been worked out on how to address the welfare needs of the military.
It meeting was headed by the Chairman Military Veterans Welfare Committee, Air Commodore Isaac Oguntuyi.
Earlier, the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Markus Kangye who called on the Director of Defence Information to shed more light on the protection said that the issue was addressed by the Military Pensions Board last week.
According to him, when the Chief of Accounts and Budget, Defence Headquarters went for the meeting with him and those aggrieved retired personnel to engage in a talk on how to resolve the issue.
“One issue to understand is that when two or three jumped up and used the mouths of others to propagate or send out messages, it could be said that the retired personnel of the Armed Forces did this”, he said.
He noted that the few that came out, the Chairman of the Military Pensions Board and the Chief of Accounts and Budget of the Defence Headquarters, and the Minister of Finance and Defence.
“There were members who went to talk and speak with them and I think they were sure that that issue had been addressed”, he said.