The Cross River State Government, says, more than “…80% of January salaries for workers in the state have already been paid.”
While most civil servants have become agitated after January salaries have remained unpaid, government further explained that, the seeming delay in the payment of salaries for some employees in the State and Local Government service, “though regrettable, is informed by painstaking efforts to weed out duplicate entries following the reconciliation of cleared names from the relevant pay-rolling offices with the nominal roll.”
This explanations as contained in a press statement issued from the Deputy Governor’s Office and currently in circulation, “… recalled that the state government had embarked on staff audit and verification for all MDAs and employees in the local government system owing to the enormous wage bill despite large number of retirements from the service.”
“The state government has made significant progress in that regard and will in no distant time makes its findings public. In the interim, government appeals to the labour force to see this exercise as birth pangs of a glorious future if we must have a state that we all desire.”
“The State Government notes the difficult times and assures that all those whose salaries have been delayed genuinely will be paid in no distant time”, the release concluded.