Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State
The Kogi State
government has refuted reports from the labour unions in the state that
said it is owing some of its workers a maximum of twelve months salaries
and not fifteen as alleged by labour unions in the Central Nigerian
state.
Edward Onoja, the chief of staff to
Governor Yahaya Bello, who said this on Monday, May 1, 2017 during a
phone interview said those being owed were on the “uncleared list”.
He said this while speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television breakfast show.
“Recall that the state government
embarked on a staff verification exercise effective February 24, 2016,
and in that exercise staffers were categorised into cleared and
uncleared, cleared means those who had no issues, whose documents and
employment records are straight and correct, all those persons have
received their salaries up until March 2017, inclusive of arrears owed
them even from the past administration,” Mr. Onoja said.
“There are other persons who were on the uncleared category as at the report in December 2016.
“His Excellency based on resolve by all
stakeholders in Kogi state to give a final appeal chance for them, set
up an appeal committee that rounded up their requisite just last week
and more people have now been migrated from the uncleared list to the
cleared list, nearly 60 percent of those that were in December
classified as uncleared.
“Just yesterday as a prelude to the May
Day celebration, His Excellency also granted clemency to those who
actually had violated the civil service rule and who were supposed to be
dismissed and because of his compassion to ensure that he gives people
more room, he pardoned about eleven infractions,” the chief of staff,
who has been dubbed the most exposed on the media in Nigeria, said.
When asked how many months salaries
those moved from the uncleared to cleared list were owed, Onoja said,
“Nobody is being owed fifteen months, maximum will be twelve months.
Fifteen months is falsehood and I can defend that anyway.”
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