The workers usually receive bank alert for the payment of their salaries on December 25, but got it December 1 this year.
It would be the second time they are receiving salaries on the first day of the month, as it also happened in May this year, as Governor Ayade commemorated Workers’ Day celebration.
The angry civil servants, complained that the decision to pay their salaries in advance, would later cause untold hardship as Christmas approaches.
“The state government’s decision to pay December salaries of some civil servants within the first three days of the month will make us suffer in due course,” a top civil servant in the Ministry of Environment, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the newsmen.
“The government should have employed caution by delaying December salary payments to a later date. Our governor may want to score a political point with this payment, but I think that those of us receiving this money stand to lose fiscally when January comes.”
But one of the governor’s aides, who pleaded anonymity, said: “People are so impossible to please. There are states in this country where salaries are not paid as and when due, but in Cross River State, our governor pays salaries and even pays ahead to cater for special occasions like the Workers’ Day and this Yuletide.
“Instead of applauding him, some people say he shouldn’t have paid. Nigerians are difficult to please.”
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Imagine?when you pay wahala, when the salaries aren't paid wahala
ReplyDeleteMr governor,ur people are very difficult to be pleased,I suggest u owe them five months salaries to help them save it since moni dry pepper them for hand,what an in great workers,maggots lols
ReplyDeleteWhat irony of life.who has shoe has no leg
ReplyDeleteBunch of ignoramus. I think the governor should ignore them and do what he think is best for them. One good reason Nigeria will never develop. This man paid their salaries so they can shop before price of commodities escalate. Yet they are protesting. It's your hard earn money. If you don't want it then leave it in the bank or better still loan it out to the bank for a month. I could arrest these set of people if I happen to be the governor. Nonsense.
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