federal ministry of finance that the money should be dedicated to salary payments alone, in states that are owning, if the statements coming from Mr. Oriaku the finance commissioner, is anything to go by, what we needed to clear all the salary backlogs is 12billion naira, incidentally we got over 31 billion naira, so what really is the problem?
What we have in Abia today is a case of misplacement of priorities, where our government is consciously misappropriating the funds meant for salaries and directing them into phantom projects that can hardly be seen or felt by the populace and putting the entire state into suffering and untold hardship, if the funds gotten was well appropriated it would have taken complete care of the salaries and wages burden of the state and we wouldn’t have been talking about backlog of salaries today.
Governor Ikpeazu had on several occasions promised to offset all the outstanding salaries and wages of the entire Abia workforce only to renege once the expected funds arrive and will rather give one month out of several months owed Abia workers, while his specially trained lie merchants will take over the social media space, the pages of newspapers and radio/television stations across the country to misinform the world about the status of salary payments in Abia.
Today, the Abia civil servant has been made homeless because he has been driven out by the landlord as a result of his inability to meet up with his rents, the children of Abia civil servants are now hawking pure water on the streets, having been chased out of school because of school fees, the dependants of abia civil servants are dying of malnutrition and lack medicare/attention because he doesn’t have money to take them to hospital.
Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu PhD, I join my voice with that of all men of good conscience to plead with you to please have pity on the Abia civil servants and pay the salaries they laboured to earn.
Aguoru
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