Unpaid Salaries: Nasarawa State Workers Seek PMB, EFCC’s Intervention

BY BABA AHMED LAFIA – Barring any last minute change of mind, some concerned civil servants in Nasarawa have concluded plans to seek the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to intervene in what they describe as seven years of Salary discrepancies.
The affected civil servants want President Buhari to direct EFCC to check why some civil servants salaries were stopped without any query or written document to back the action of the state government.
They said that even though the state government have stop including their names in the salary voucher, yet the salary figure of the state has remain the same, a development that indicates wild scale anomaly and administrative lacuna.
Those who spoke to Forefront on condition of anonymity, said that salaries of some of the civil servants were arbitrarily stopped without any reason while the total figure has refused to change.

The civil servants therefore called on the president and the anti-graft agency to also assist in identifying the reason for percentage payment and why despite several screening and sacking of over 7000
workers, the salary figure has refused to change.

The affected workers urged President Buhari and EFCC to find solution to the lingering percent payments especially at the local government areas of the state where salary matter has become a problem.

One of the civil servants said; “A case is of a female civil servant in the ministry of Justice who was sacked last year because of a comment in the face book yet her salary keeps running because the state still maintain same salary figure”.
Another source opine that the affected civil servants are putting together all the issues and problems associated with salary payments to mail to President Buhari and the EFCC urging the presidency and EFCC to intervene by checking the books of the state salary bureau.

One of the affected civil servants said; “You don’t suspend an employee salary without any written information because if he goes to court all those involved will be called and the state will lose a lot for lack of due diligence.”