Abia, Ondo, Imo, Others Slammed For Owing Workers

BudgIT, a transparency and accountability advocacy organisation, has released its survey on the state governments, that are owing their workers.

In the survey released on Thursday, BudgIT expressed disapproval over certain state governments’ refusal to pay the monthly salaries accruable to its civil service workers in their states as and when due.

BudgIT in its empirical survey across the 36 states in the federation revealed that at least 12 states owe their workers at least one month’s salary as of July 28, 2022.

It was discovered that States like Abia, Adamawa, Ebonyi, Ondo, Imo and Taraba owe three years or less in payments.

For example, Abia State currently owes its state tertiary institution workers six months’ salary, while Ebonyi has not paid its pensioners in the last six months.

Secretariat workers in Taraba State complained of irregular salary payments for up to six months, while lecturers at state tertiary institutions and midwives in the state-owned hospital in Ondo State have not been paid a dime in the last four months.

Addressing the challenge, BudgIT’s Head of Research and Policy Advisory, Iniobong Usen in a statement issued by the organisation said, “Nigerian civil servants are unfortunately no strangers to delays and gaps in monthly salary payments. Despite belonging to the executive implementing arm of the government, they have been left without payments in many instances. With several states guilty of this non-payment, civil servants are often at wit’s end at ‘month end.’”

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