Retirement Hell - BBC Africa Eye documentary

BBC Africa Eye goes undercover to expose an ineffective and corrupt pension system in Nigeria, which leaves some elderly people sick and penniless, yet grants some politicians inflated retirement packages.Reporter Yemisi Adegoke travels to Cross River State to meet ‘Ghost Pensioners’ – elderly people whom the state declared dead and deprived of their pensions. Some of them are forced to rely on financial support from their relatives and are subjected to dehumanizing treatment from the state officials for petitioning for their pensions to be reinstated.***Africa Eye brings you original, investigative journalism revealing secrets and rooting out injustice in the world’s most complex and exciting continent. Nothing stays hidden forever.If you liked this investigation, you may also like "The Bullet and the V

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