The management of military pension in Nigeria like everything else is fraud-laden, error-prone, bedevilled by meaningless bureaucratic bottlenecks and characterised by reckless and senseless indolence on the part of serving military officers in handling the affairs of their retired seniors and in cahoot with some civilians.
As you will see later in this material, several scams are perpetrated in the management of military pension and the legitimate earnings of retired soldiers are sabotaged, denying them of their legal rights to survival entrenched in our laws. In fact, on way too many occassions, the provisions of the law in this regard have often been abused, flouted and disregarded by those in charge of the welfare of veterans. The scam is perpetrated by an arrogant inter-ministerial syndicate consisting of civilians and serving military personnel and some banks who do the biddings of compromised agents.
