Pensioners sell Indian hemp in Abuja - Pensions board
Chris Agbambu, Abuja
Friday, March 27, 2009
The Military Pensions Board on Wednesday raised the alarm over “the unwholesome activities of some pensioners loitering the streets of Abuja and were arrested selling Indian hemp.”


The chairman of the board, Brigadier-General Bitrus Kwaji, who expressed the worries over the activities of some of these pensioners while parading 18 of them who were arrested in Abuja, said they had been paid up to March.



Two of the pensioners who were caught with large quantity of Indian hemp, all in wraps, said they were taking it on medical grounds, as their doctors said that it would help in the cure of hernia.



However, General Kwaji, who decried the activities of the pensioners, said they were portraying the board in “a very bad light,” adding that record showed that they were not owed.



He said those of them found in possession of Indian hemp would be handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for further investigation and prosecution.