On Tuesday, civil servants in Abia State, South-East Nigeria, took a stand by preventing the state’s Accountant General, Mrs. Njum Onyemenam of the Ministry of Finance, from entering her office in Umuahia. This action was taken due to their ongoing salary payment issues.
A witness shared a video, revealing that the workers had locked all entrances to the Accountant-General’s office as a form of protest.
Recall that about a month ago, it was reported that hundreds of civil servants in the state picketed the Accountant General’s office over Governor Alex Otti-led state government’s failure to pay their salaries over claims that they were ghost workers.
It was gathered that the State Government had in a statement by the states commissioner for information, claimed that the government had discovered over 2,300 ghost workers in the government’s payroll and had saved over N600 million by stopping payment of their salaries.
The workers had insisted that the millions of Naira Governor Otti’s government claimed it has saved is indeed the sweat of the state workers who have now been subjected to hunger by the state government.
