How can a state as poor as Abia have a monthly pension liability of N830m? – Abia govt vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
ABA – Abia State government has blamed the civil service system for the huge wage bill and pension arrears bedeviling the state and questioned why should have a pension liability of N830m.Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Obinna Oriaku, who disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Umuahia, noted that several years of undeserving promotions in the civil service had led to excessive hike in salaries with its implications on the current problem of huge wage bill and pensions.
Oriaku lamented that the current administration met the rot in the civil service system and decided not to ignore it in order to avoid another administration inheriting such a huge problem. “How can a state as poor as Abia have a pension liability of N450m monthly for state and N380m for Local Governments? What this means is that you are using almost N1b to service pension on monthly basis. In Abia, we have pensioners who are retiring as bosses. Virtually every civil servant is retiring at level 16 and all wants to be permanent secretaries which is a measure issue because as permanent secretary, you earn what you were earning in service as pension.
“Pension is an issue in Abia and you can’t address it without addressing the fundamentals. And what are the fundamentals? The truth is that those figures were built on false premises. In some ministries like Health, civil servants imported an imaginary salary scale which is not being used anywhere.
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