 Retired workers in River State are lamenting over poor handling of their welfare by the administration of Governor Newsome Wiki. This followed alleged failure of the Governor to pay them their pension arrears and gratuity, running into hundreds of billions of Naira. The report. The River State coordinator of pensioners, Loki It, who spoke to Newsmaire in Port Hackett, expressed concern that many of them have died. Several members have been sent out of their rented apartments while their children are out of school. Atty insisted that he will be happy to support the presidential ambition of Governor Wiki if he pays their several-year pension arrears and place those who are yet to be captured on arrears. He stressed the need for the Wiki administration to ensure promotion of workers to prevent stagnating pension when they retire from service. We are over 7,000 persons that has retired within the period. As of April 2021, when the report of the tripartite committee was submitted, government was owing over 190 billion, River State government years, and from that April 2021, the people are retiring every day. We also want to use this opportunity to appeal to him those of all that we left in the civil service that has not been promoted for somebody to be stagnant on a state grade level for eight years and that is that is productivity has gone. Another retired worker, Quail Ukobal said she'd stayed for years before she was paid monthly pension but has been owed gratuity for 42 months. She explained that I did not commit any crime for working for the government. I am being owed for 42 months so that 42 months and my gratuity has not been also paid to me and you can imagine how that will look like for a mother. We want our gratuities monthly pension arrears to be paid to us. National President for South South Youth Initiative Imabes Savio Oscar expressed this pleasure that the retired workers have been left at the mercy of continuous protests for their rights without any positive response from the government. Savio Oscar also accused Niki administration of allowing agriculture, entrepreneurial and other ideas of the past administration like massive banana plantation, entire local government area, Bulgoma Fish Farm and Songhai Farms that would have improved the economy of the state to rot away.