We Have Paid 38 Months Salaries To Our Workers — Kogi State Government
The Kogi State government has come out to say that contrary to the claims of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, it has paid its workers the 38 Months salaries since it came into office in 2016.
This was released as an official statement by the Director-General of Media and Publicity to the Governor of the state, Mr. Kingsley Fanwo while he was speaking to newsmen right after a stakeholders meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Takete, Ide Amuro in Mopamuro local government.
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According to Mr Fanwo: “One of the questions our party members asked during the meeting was about the claim by labour that we are owing workers 38 months’ salaries.
“As far as the government is concerned, we have paid 38 months’ salaries starting from September 2015. We have been in office for just 39 months. But we are still owing four months’ salaries because we started paying from the period when we were yet to assume power.
“We are not in any power play with labour. We will continue to appreciate their understanding and we pledge to clear all the arrears as soon as possible,” he explained.
He further explained everything the state government had gone through so as to pay all the salaries the previous government owed, despite the dwindling revenue, and also meeting with the needs of the people of the state.
“We know how pivotal salaries are to microeconomics and we also know we owe other sectors of the public a good number of social amenities.
“Government will continue to manage the contending interests to serve a good number of the population,” he added.
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Speaking on the rumoured decamping of the governor of the state to Accord Party AP, the media aid said that the rumors are just propaganda by political comedians, and it won’t fly.
“Such rumours will fail a major logic lab test. It is laughable to insinuate that a governor that just led our party to landslide and historic victory in the 2019 general elections is about to abandon his bungalow to rent a hut.
“If this is the kind of propaganda the opposition wants to fly with, then they are not ready for the forthcoming November 2 electoral battle in the state.
“Governor Yahaya Bello is the landlord of Kogi APC. Anyone coming is a tenant. Where were those opponents when he built the party into what dwarfed others in the 2019 elections? The people spreading these rumours are political comedians with lazy minds. They are conceding defeats with such cheap jokes,” he declared.
