The Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has promised to pay all salary arrears of civil servants and the pension arrears before the end of this month, December.
The governor, who made the promise today, Saturday, at the commemoration of the 110th birthday of the Odeyan Anebira, Alhaji Audu Otonoku and his eight years on the throne as Otonoku in Lokoja, the state capital, said that he would commence prompt payment of salaries of workers in the state public service from January 2018.
“As from January next year, we shall be paying all our cleared civil servants’ salaries as and when due.
“I want to appreciate God that good days are coming to the people of Kogi,” he said.
The governor said that the delay in the payment of workers’ salaries was caused by what he called ‘huge debts’ which he claimed his administration inherited from the immediate past administration.[myad]
