Zamfara Govt refutes experiences of non-payment of employees salaries for 4 months

Zamfara State Authorities has refuted experiences that civil servants within the state haven’t been paid salaries for 4 months.

Briefing newsmen shortly after the State Government Council assembly at Authorities Home, Gusau, the Head of Civil Service, Alhaji Yakubu Sani Haidara stated the experiences are baseless and a deliberate try and discredit the state authorities.

Haidara identified that the federal government obtained with shock the false claims that salaries haven’t been paid to civil servants for 4 months.

“I wish to state right here that these are false experiences from the enemies,” he stated.

He stated Governor Dauda Lawal’s administration has prioritized the welfare of employees.

“Because the Head of Civil Service, I can confidently say that Governor Lawal is essentially the most civil service pleasant governor Zamfara has ever received,” the top of service stated.

He added that upon taking workplace, the governor cleared three months’ wage arrears with none formal request from employees.

In response to him, the administration has additionally paid pensions and gratuity arrears amounting to about N14 billion.

Additionally Talking, Zamfara State Commissioner for Training, Science, and Expertise, Malam Wadato Madawaki, debunked experiences that the state authorities has withheld salaries of employees for 4 months, describing the claims because the handiwork of mischief makers.

He careworn that because the inception of Governor Dauda Lawal’s administration, salaries have been paid promptly.

“After we got here into workplace, we found quite a few irregularities throughout the training sector. Committees had been set as much as totally evaluate the workforce from fundamental to senior and tertiary establishments and what we discovered was a bloated payroll,” he stated.

Madawaki famous that primarily based on the findings, Governor Lawal constituted a committee to analyze and one other to provide a white paper to current the information to the general public.

“It’s vital for each civil servants and most people to grasp that there has by no means been a time when salaries weren’t paid even for a single month. In reality, Governor Dauda Lawal has ensured that salaries are paid on or earlier than the twenty fifth of each month, whatever the monetary state of affairs.”

“Within the training sector, there are 207 people whose salaries have been withheld primarily based on credible findings by the committee,” Madawaki clarified. “A few of these people had been discovered to be persistently absent from responsibility with out justification.”

He urged the general public to ignore the misinformation and challenged anybody with real proof of unpaid salaries to come back ahead with verifiable proof.

“We are going to proceed to uphold transparency and accountability. False claims with out information solely serve to distract from the federal government’s dedication to reforms and good governance,” he concluded.

Additionally talking, the State Commissioner for Info, Mahmud Dantawasa, stated a number of key points together with safety, healthcare, agriculture, training, infrastructure, empowerment and the economic system had been mentioned throughout the council assembly.

He maintained that the wage cost claims on social media had been false and deceptive.