Yahaya Bello,
governor of Kogi state, says he only owes the state workers four months
salaries.
The governor said this
following a claim by the state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)
that he owed the state workers between 8 to 38 salary arrears.
Kingsley Fanwo, spokesman
of the governor, said the state government had paid salaries for 38 months
since it came into power.
Fanwo said this during a
press briefing after an All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders’ meeting
in Takete Ide Amuro in Mopamuro local government area, on Monday.
“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,” he said.
“As far as 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 we are 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 arrears as soon as possible.
“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.”
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