By Chinenyeh Ozor

Nsukka—Retired teachers in Enugu State have said that they would not participate in the forthcoming general elections due to neglect by the state government.

Some of the seniour citizens who spoke in an interview with Vanguard at Nsukka, said that they had not been paid their gratuities since 2004, leading to the death of several of them.

One of the teachers who simply gave his name as Mr Eze because of fear of victimisation described the action of the Sullivan Chime’s administration as ‘’most uncaring.’’

Eze said, ‘’some teachers retired before me, but I left in 2004, after 35 years of meritorious service to the state. When I retired, I was neither paid my gratuity or pension until 2006, when they started paying me the monthly pension, which has not been even regular in any case.

‘’Although, they started paying my pension in 2006, we were not paid the arrears of 2004 and 2005; they just cut that part off as if they were doing us some favour.”