This is to inform Imo people and indeed, all the Personnel in the State workforc…e in particular that the governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has directed that the salaries for the months of April, May and June be paid before Friday next week, (July 8, 2016), and also gave a marching order to the Directors of Accounts in the Ministries, Local Governments and so on, to meet with the Accountant-General of the State immediately to workout the salaries of workers upto the month of June.
The governor had given the directive at a meeting that lasted for several hours and ended very late on Friday July 1, 2016 at the Government House with the government functionaries, Directors of Accounts, Treasurers, Permanent Secretaries, leaders of Imo Council of Elders and T/C Chairmen and other relevant bodies present at the meeting.
The governor also warned that this period should be the last time salaries would be owed in the State and assured that henceforth, salaries of workers in the State would be paid as at when due as it was the case before now. To avoid confusion and delay in the payment of salaries for the mentioned months, the governor also directed that they could be paid within intervals of one or two days.
A committee to monitor the prompt payment of salaries in the State was also set up and the committee would be meeting with the Directors of Accounts and Accountant-General on the 10th of every month to work on salaries and ensure prompt payment.
The governor equally explained that the 70 and 30 percent revenue sharing formular between labour and government in the State does not mean that workers would get only seventy percent of salaries at the end of each month.
His Excellency said the workers could even get more than their salaries depending on what the seventy percent labour gets would give them at the end of each month and could at times get their exact salaries or otherwise, also depending on what the seventy percent would give to labour.
He said it would be wrong to use the seventy percent agreement to peg the monthly salaries of workers at seventy percent because the labour’s seventy percent could give the workers either one hundred percent or eighty percent or seventy percent or less percent of their individual salaries depending on what labour gets each month.
In paying the three months salary arrears, the governor warned that anybody found playing pranks will be punished accordingly, and reiterated that nobody in the State workforce should be owed.
The governor also directed that no government appointee including Commissioners, Transition Committee Chairmen and so on, should issue authorization letter or give permission to anybody or agency or company for the collection of revenue. And cautioned that anybody that goes contrary to this directive will be fired.
He therefore cancelled any previous agreement anybody or group or company must have had with the government for the collection of Revenue.
The governor also informed that arrangements have been made to clear pensions owed before the agreement on revenue sharing formular between government and labour, while the technical committee handling the agreement would take care of pensions from the month of February when the agreement came into force.
His Excellency once again appealed to Imo people to always know that all his actions and inactions are in the best interest of the State and her people. And concluded that history and posterity will be fair to him because he meant well for the State.
Sam Onwuemeodo
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor
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