More than a year after Ogun State’s Contributory Pension Scheme took effect, retirees who gave the state up to 35 years of service say they are burying colleagues, selling homes and begging for drugs while their retirement accounts sit nearly empty. This editorial explains, in plain language, what went wrong, what government has said, and why the outcome should matter to every worker, jobseeker and student watching how the state treats those who served it.