All Salary Arrears Will Be Cleared Soon- Kogi SSG

Eniola Awokoya

Kogi State Government has assured civil servants in the state that all salary arrears will be cleared with next tranche of bailout fund from federal government.

The Secretary to Kogi State Government, Dr.(Mrs) Folashade Ayoade disclosed this on Monday featuring on Happenings Radio Political show: Talk Politics.

Dr. Ayoade however denied the rumors that the state government is owing civil servants thirty eight months’ salary arrears.

She explained that the state is only owing genuine and verified workers four months’ salary covering February to May 2019.

The SSG who spent a large part of her career in the civil service and retired from the National Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) before joining partisan politics, noted that Governor Yahaya Bello administration inherited an over bloated civil service bedeviled with several anomalies.

Dr. Folasade Ayoade added that the administration embarked on a verification exercise for the civil servants and many were discovered to be working with fake certificates, promotion irregularities, some had retired but substituted their names with that of their children on the payroll among several other infractions.

According to her, those who couldn’t be verified were shown the way out and they are the ones claiming being owed 38 months arrears while verified workers are only being owed four months, while assuring that all arrears will be cleared as soon as the administration receive the next tranche of bailout funds from the federal government.

”Kogi state under the leadership of Governor Yahaya Bello has always been in the news most especially because of the peculiar circumstances through which the governor came into power.” She stated.

She expressed optimism that Governor Bello who is seeking a second term in office will win November 16 poll due to his unprecedented achievements in security, education agriculture, health, infrastructure and other sectors.