*Asks retired judicial officers to disregard phone calls demanding money to fast track payment of benefits
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The National Judicial Council (NJC) today, alerted of an incessant bids by a group of fraudsters to defraud retired judicial officers in Nigeria.
Raising the alarm in a statement in Abuja by its Director of Information, Barrister Soji Oye, NJC claimed that the alleged fraudsters have been bombarding its retired Judicial officers with phone calls demanding for various sums of money to help them fast track payment of their retirement benefits.
NJC while dissociating itself from the actions of the alleged fraudsters, tasked retired Judicial officers not to fall victims of the unscrupulous people.
“The attention of the National Judicial Council has been drawn to the incessant phone calls being made to retired Judicial Officers by some unscrupulous individuals demanding payments to fast track the processing of their retirement benefits”, it said.
NJC added, “The National Judicial Council by this medium, informs retired Judicial Officers and members of the public to disregard such phone calls as NJC would never demand money from any Judicial Officer to fast track the payment of his retirement benefit”.
“The public is hereby advised to be wary of and report such calls to the Pension Department of the Council for appropriate action”.
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