A member of the House of Representatives representing Remo Federal Constituency, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, has identified delay in the payment of pension of retirees as the main reason why most serving civil servants in Nigeria  engage in corrupt practices.

Adebutu, who is the chairman, House Committee of Rural Development, stated this at the weekend in Abeokuta while fielding questions from journalists, shortly after he paid a condolence  visit to the family of the late Nollywood actor, Prince Samuel Adesanya, popularly known as Pastor Ajidara.

According to him, the delay in the payment of pensions, would always trigger workers desire to amass wealth in shady manners why still in active service.

He said the late actor who was still expecting his gratuity put at N4m from the state government wouldn’t have died if his entitlements had been paid.

“It is a settled matter that when people put a lifetime of work into a system that is pensionable, it is a contract, you should just simply pay their pension. When these pensions are not paid for various reasons, to my view it is a financial rascality, when the money is misappropriated for other purposes.

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