Abia State News Special Report
"FROM 1999 TO 2016, ABIA STATE GOVT HAVE BEEN PAYING PARASTASTALSÔÇØ ABIA NLC CHAIRMAN BLOWS HOT
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Afnews Editor
Aug 14, 2019
The salary banter and disagreement between Abia State
government and Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) led by Comrade Uchenna Obigwe is
increasingly becoming hotter as the Union has accused Governor Okezie Ikpeazu's
led administration of collecting the last tranche of Paris Refund Club fund.
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Chairman of NLC in the state, Comrade Uchenna Obigwe, who
made the congress' position known on Wednesday in Umuahia, also accused the
government of refusal to look into the plights of civil servants and the huge
backlog of salary arrears owed workers in the state parastastals.
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Obigwe said, "Whatever policy government make, they have to
carry the labour along, so that we will know what they are doing. And the
government should not play politics with the stomach of Abia workers.
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"Let me tell you, since 1999, all the successive government
in Abia had been paying parastastal salaries up to 2015, 2016. If not so, why
will the bail out funds be given in 2015. Government was owing Abia State
University Teaching Hospital, Aba, about eight to nine months, the government
paid it.
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"They cannot culminate these arrears and leave it unpaid. We
received bail out fund in 2015. We received first and second tranche of Paris
fund. NLC was part of the disbursement. That of third tranche and also that of
the last tranche, nobody have heard anything about it from government.
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"And the information we have is that, the Abia government
has received the third and last tranche of the funds. We confirmed this from
our national leadership of NLC. If Governor Ikpeazu-led government say it has
not received it, let the government put a letter to that effect, and address it
to national President of NLC, I will take it to him, and he (President) will
reply them.ÔÇØ
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Meanwhile, the Abia government had in a statement issued by
the State Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, denied receiving
the last tranche of the fund.
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Part of the statement read, "We wish to state without fear
of contradiction that Abia is among the few states that are yet to receive the
last tranche of Paris Club Refund. That the state NLC Chairman publicly claimed
that he "read onlineÔÇØ that the state government has received such payment is
mischievous, bearing in mind that someone occupying his position is expected to
verify information before going public and not rely on some fabricated
falsehood in questionable online outfitsÔÇØ.
