Tuesday, civil servants from Abia State in the South-East region restricted access to the Umuahia office of Mrs. Njum Onyemenam, Accountant General of the state’s Ministry of Finance. This action was initiated because their salaries had not been paid.
A witness who shared a video of the closure of gates informed SaharaReporters that “all entrances leading to the Accountant-General’s office have been locked”
Abia State
Recall that a month ago, it was reported that hundreds of civil servants in the state picketed the Accountant General’s office in protest of the state government led by Governor Alex Otti’s refusal to pay their salaries due to allegations that they were ghost employees.
It was gathered that the State Government had in a statement by the states commissioner for information, claimed that the government had discovered over 2,300 ghost workers in the government’s payroll and had saved over N600 million by stopping payment of their salaries.
The workers had insisted that the millions of Naira Governor Otti’s government claimed it has saved is indeed the sweat of the state workers who have now been subjected to hunger by the state government.
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