Nigeria, Dec. 8 -- Retired civil servants in Ogun State on Monday staged a protest to demand the immediate suspension of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) and the remittance of what they described as nearly 18 years of unremitted pension deductions

The protesters, in their large numbers, took the peaceful protest to the doorstep of the Governor's Office at his Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, the state capital, displaying various placards to register their displeasure against the CPS.

The aggrieved pensioners accused successive administrations of violating the laws guiding the scheme and abandoning workers who served the state for decades. They argued that the scheme introduced in 2008, with a mandatory 7.5 per cent deduction each from employee...