Ortom pleads with workers over half salary


Gov. Ortom
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, yesterday apologised to civil servants in the state for underpaying them. He, however, directed that appropriate corrective measures would be taken without delay on the matter while asking the Ministry of Finance to ensure that similar errors would not occur in subsequent salary payments.
The governor’s apology was coming on the heels of a barrage of complaints from civil servants that they were paid half salaries out of the two months’ salary promised them by the governor before the end of December, even as the Nigeria Labour Congress had issued a one-week ultimatum to the state government to pay the two months salaries from the Paris Club refund.

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