Placard bearing pensioners in Abia State Wednesday stormed the Government House, Umuahia to protest the non-payment of their pension and gratuity for the past three years.

The aggrieved retirees, clad in black barricaded the gate of  Government House  chanting protest songs. "We are being owed  over 3 years of unpaid pension and gratuity", they lamented

The pensioners, comprising the aged and weak cried that they could no longer afford even the basic necessities and decried the apparent lack of concern showed by the  government of  the day which seems to have forgotten  their years of services