The Nation Newspaper We’ll pay salary arrears in tranches - Abia Govt
The Abia Government has said it would pay salary arrears owed workers in the state civil service, in tranches.
According to him, the present administration inherited a debt of N16.5 billion of salary arrears owed workers in state-owned institutions of learning. “For salary arrears,the governor has set up machinery in motion to ensure that salary arrears would become a thing of the past.“We will do it in instalments, so that it does not hamper the progress other sector of the economy,” he said..
Akpara said that the state-owned institutions of higher learning include Abia State University College of Education, Arochukwu, College of Health Sciences, Abia state Polytechnic, Aba and Abia State University Teaching Hospital. “In the past, there was something called generate and use and we noticed that things were not being done properly, a situation where salaries are being owed for 11 months, 33 months, 22 months respectively, in most of those institutions .
He said they were completing what the past administration started, since ”government is a continuum”.
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