The Senate, through its Committee on Code of Conduct, Ethics and Public Petitions, frowned on Tuesday at the Nigerian military over the delay in payment of insurance benefits to dead and retired personnel.
It specifically declared that it was unacceptable that 174 families are facing the brunt of such delays in the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, alone.
This is even as it prevented NAF officers, led by Wing Commander Mohammed Saleh, from arresting Master Warrant Rukayat Ajoke Ishola, who petitioned the Senate on non-payment of her husband’s insurance benefits and alleged maltreatment by the Air Force authorities since the demise of her husband, Warrant Officer Daramola Taiwo, in April 2016.
The Senate’s displeasure at the delay in payment of insurance benefits by the military to its dead or retired personnel followed the consideration of a petition filed against NAF by Master Warrant Officer Rukayat Ishola.
Ishola, in the petition, alleged that payment of insurance benefits of her late husband was deliberately delayed by NAF and that her child was denied from enjoying payment of school fees like other children of late men and officers of the military