Pensioner bondholders have resumed their picketing at the Ministry of Finance as they accuse the government of bad faith after it failed to honour their matured coupons and bonds despite granting pensioners exemption in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme.
The pensioner bondholders who earlier this year picketed at the Finance Ministry for nearly three weeks called off their action following assurances from government that they were exempted from the programme.
But barely three months after their initial picketing was called off, the Pensioner bondholders are back at it again as they slam government for failing to honour the agreement.
“They should give us our capital, some of us are ready to take our capital because they can’t be fan fooling us this way. What they are doing is worse than NAM1 issue. NAM1 was an individual company or entity but the whole government of State should not be tricking pensioners like this. If they don’t take time, they will dearly pay for it. They should try and pay us our money, if they can’t pay us our interest, they should credit our principals into our various accounts so that we take our money. We worked for our monies and they must not maltreat us this way,” a pensioner bondholder told Starr News.