Kogi State Governor, Yahaya
Bello, says his administration has completed payment of salary to 95 per cent
of its workers cleared in the just concluded staff screening and verification
exercise. He also announced that students in tertiary institutions will
henceforth receive N10,000 as bursary as against former N3,500.
“I can confirm that people are still getting payment alerts as we do our best to meet the May 31 timeline which we set for ourselves to complete all payments,” the governor said in a statement issued to mark this year’s democracy day celebration.
Bello stated that that government
was deploying integrated staff and payroll automation solutions to consolidate
the gains from the screening in line with the ongoing civil service and pension
reforms.
With the conclusion of the
exercise, he assured workers and pensioners of prompt payment of salary and
pensions.
According to Bello, the
government had tamed the widespread insecurity of lives and property which it
inherited.
”Today, the incidence of kidnapping, armed robbery and other violent crimes has dropped to almost zero,” the governor said in the statement personally signed by him.
He disclosed that the state
internally generated revenue had increased from between N350m and N400m per
month to over N1 billion per month.
The governor said that more than
1000 appointments had been made in the Ministries of Environment, Justice and
the Revenue Board in the past 15 months while advert had been placed for
massive recruitment into the health sector.
Bello said plans were nearing
completion for the construction of 239 blocks of two Classrooms, one in each of
the 239 wards in the state under the GYB Model Primary School Initiative.
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