DELTA STATE WORKER
The Delta
Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Mr Joyce Overah, says that 21 out of
the 25 local governments in the state are still owing their workers months of
unpaid salaries. Overah disclosed this in Asaba on Wednesday while presenting
the stewardship of his ministry in the last one year during a news conference.
He said that only
four local government areas were not owing staff salaries. He said that the
rest were owing between one month and seven months’ of unpaid salaries. The
commissioner, however, did not mention those owing or those that were up to
date in the payment of their workers’ salaries. The commissioner said that the
state government would settle the outstanding salaries of the local government
workers from the next tranche of the Paris Club to be paid by the Federal
Government. He said that the state governor had also approved a committee of
qualified accountants from the state Auditor-General’s office to determine the
excess bank charges imposed on the council areas. Overah said that the
committee’s forensic audit would cover between 2007 and 2017. He said that the
committee was expected to submit a report which the state government would use
to recover all wrongful bank charges imposed on the council areas with accrued
interests. (NAN)
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