Retired local government workers and their primary school counterparts in Enugu State are being owed about twenty months’ arrears of pensions. Their gratuities were last paid in 2005. This report interrogates their plights, the cause of the non-payment overtime, and the challenge before the state government. I feel I’m useless – retiree Chukwuma Arua retired as a primary school teacher in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State. He retired about ten years ago. Arua told THE WHISTLER that, “With my seven children and wife literally