Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State. |
The Bayelsa Government has dismissed the classification of the
state as one of the states with highest indebtedness to its workforce by the
Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).
In a
statement by the states Commissioner for Information, Mr Daniel
Iworiso-Markson, Bayelsa Commissioner for Information, Bayelsa remained amongst
states with the least indebtedness to its workforce and described the NLC’s
classification as misleading.
Iworiso-Markson
who declined to mention the state’s indebtedness to its workforce, said that
the NLC did not consult with the state on the issue and that the report was
done in bad faith because it lacked substance as it did not reflect the true
position of things in the state.
According to
him, “As at now, the government is not owing salaries of its workers in the
civil service as we have kept faith with payment since the beginning of the
year till date”, he stated.
However,
investigations by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) revealed that civil servants
in the state were being owed a backlog of five months’ salary accumulated in
2016.
NLC
President Ayuba Wabba had at the weekend listed Bayelsa as the third state with
the highest salary backlog.
The NLC
president listed the other states as: Benue, Kogi, Ekiti, Imo, Ondo, Abia and
Oyo.
Mr Tari
Dounana, Bayelsa chapter Chairman of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), told NAN
in a telephone chat that backlog owed civil servants stood at four and half
months.
He said
that teachers were the worst affected with 10 months outstanding salary.
NAN recalls
that primary schools in Bayelsa have remained shut since resumption of the
2017/2018 academic session, as a result of the ongoing indefinite strike by Nigerian
Union of Teachers (NUT).
Dounana
said that the strike was due to non-payment of 10 months’ salary arrears.
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