The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate has embarked on a mini-verification for retired Federal Permanent Secretaries under the Defined Benefit Scheme.
A statement by the management of the Directorate on Wednesday said the verification was held at the Office of the Head of Civil Service in Abuja.
Sharon Ikeazor, the Executive Secretary of PTAD, said the exercise was an effort to continue the momentum of success of the verification.
Ikeazor said that the verification would last for three days, adding that it involved capturing the data and bio-metrics of the retirees.
The PTAD boss explained that the commission had embarked on another mobile verification of 77 pensioners who were not captured during the main verification in some geo-political zones.
Ikeazor said: “The Directorate has delegated six staff to move to Edo, Delta, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, Imo, Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. They will be spending 20 days on the field.
“The exercise will take in those pensioners who are either too ill or aged to leave their immediate environment and invigorate PTAD’s primary objective of ensuring stress-free accessibility to all categories of pensioners under the DBS.
“The pensioners will be brought back to the payroll, many of whom were removed due to being incapacitated to attend the earlier exercises.”
Earlier, Joseph Nwosu, the Secretary of the Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries, encouraged his colleagues who were resident in Abuja to take advantage of the mini-verification.
According to Nwosu, this is an opportunity to be captured and complete the process once and for all.
He said for those who were not physically fit, they would give a list to PTAD to go to their homes and hospitals to conduct a mobile verification.
The other side of the exercise served as a reunion for the former top bureaucrats to go down memory lane on their years in service and making governance a functional tool for people development.