The exercise is holding at the Sky Catering Services at the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA), Lagos and sources told Saturday Sun that two retirees who had slumped while on the queue to get their documents verified were later pronounced dead after being rushed to hospital.
On Monday, officials of PICA had said that at least 500 retirees would be verified and captured daily for final disbursement of their entitlement, but five days after the commencement of the exercise, out of the 3,000 slated for the exercise, only 400 had been verified and gone through the data capturing.
“The stress associated with this exercise led to two retirees of the former national carrier slumping on Thursday at this venue and later dying in the hospitals where they were taken,” a source said. “The remains of the dead were deposited at the mortuary.”
Saturday Sun learnt that the verification forms had been exhausted as early as 10am yesterday while those slated for screening by the officials were stranded and had no clue on when the forms would be made available. At the verification centre, Capt. Julius Orimoloye, 87, the first black pilot to fly Nigeria Airways, decried the poor arrangement put in place by the verification team.
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