Nigeria:Ayade orders table payment of workers to checkmate ghost workers

CALABAR- SENATOR Ben Ayade, the Cross River State governor has ordered for an on the spot cash payment of primary school teachers and local government workers to checkmate the high incidence of ghost workers and fraudulent deductions by paying authorities.

Ben Ayade

Senator Ayade who stated this while speaking with journalists in an interactive session in his office on Monday evening said it was unacceptable that somebody would commit himself to work for government for thirty days and at the end of the month he is not paid his salary which would cause unnecessary suffering to his family.

He said he was not aware that while the backlog of salaries of civil servants was cleared, the primary school teachers and local government workers were not paid along side and as such the need for the for the directive that those set of workers be paid within the week but through table payment to eliminate the high rate of ghost workers and unnecessary deductions on the salaries.

“I have articulated the documentation and payment process for the local government workers and primary school teachers to begin this week with the April salary through on the spot table payment in the presence of forensic data system to capture each payment in order to address the high incidence of ghost workers and illegal deductions while the May and June salaries will come next week”.

Senator Ayade said the cash payment of salaries would aid the verification of the accurate number of workers in the state and block leakages that are in the system so that the money realised from there could be deployed in other areas of need .

“We are constructing a garment factory which should be commissioned during my first one hundred days in office and would employ over one thousand workers majority of whom shall be widows as they are the most hard hit and vulnerable in the society and ewer need money there”.

Governor Ayade told journalists that plans have been concluded to flagoff the construction of a 250 kilometres road from Calabar to Ikom through a private/ public partnership while.

The state he said will also establish a cement factory and a sea port at the high sea at Bakassi that will generate about 300 billion naira for the state annually.

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