Abia State News Special Report
IKPEAZU FIRES FINANCE CONSULTANTS, UNVEILS ROAD MAP FOR SUSTAINABLE SALARY, PENSION PAYMENT
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Afnews Editor
Oct 29, 2019
Information reaching Abia Facts News, has it
that Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State have fired financial and salary
consultants attached to the government.
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This information was made public by the CPS to the governor,
Barrister Onyebuchi Ememanka in a detail report that also unveiled the road map
for sustainable salary and pension payment in Abia State.
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Following pronouncements made by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu
directing that payment of Workers' Salaries
and ,Pensions, Arrears must be settled on or before the 28th day of
every month, the Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Aham Uko has assured that issues of outstanding salaries and
pensions will be tackled by the ministry
in compliance with the governor's directive to ensure prompt payment of
workers' salaries.
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According to him, the government has disbanded the salary
committee as well as other consultancy firms managing salary payments due to
incessant complaints of salary deductions by civil servants, adding that Abia
government will utilize the electronic
salary payment platform which would "seamlessly" pay civil
servants and disburse subvention to parastatals with a view to reducing the
incidences of manipulation, insertion of figures, falsifications and salary leakages.
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In his words: "There won't be any form of deductions
whatsoever from anybody's salaries and we are doing it straight from the
parameters provided by the civil service commission as relates to salary payment.
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"We intend to upload (salaries) electronically. From next month, there will be an auto- pay system.
That way, salary payment will be seamless. We are going to utilize the salary
payment platform to pay civil servants to reduce incidences of manipulation,
insertion of figures, all forms of falsifications and grafts will be reduced
pending when we formally conduct a comprehensive enumeration. We think by the exercise,
we will still reduce some leakages''.
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The Commissioner disclosed that effective from this month, three Parastatals including the College of Health Technology Aba, College of Education Technical Arochukwu and the Abia State Universal Basic Education Board will be included on the list of parastatals and MDAs whose subventions will become first line charge adding that Abia State Polytechnic, having commenced the process of reform, will also receive regular and sustained monthly subventions from November this year while the recently disengaged staff from the polytechnic will paid their entitlements from next month until it's final liquidation.
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He noted that after handling these first three institutions,
Abia state University Uturu ,Abia State University Teaching Hospital and
Hospital Management Board would be next.
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The Commissioner also stated that the Governor has ordered
full implementation of the provisions of the Law on Universal Basic Education
which makes it mandatory for Local Government Areas to pay salaries of teachers
from Primary to Junior Secondary School while the State pays those of Senior
Secondary School teachers.
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While informing that the Secondary Education Management
Board (SEMB) will start receiving
regular and sustained payment of
salaries from December, Uko pleaded with Abia pensioners to exercise patience
with the state government as it is working out modalities to ensure regular and
prompt payment of pensions.
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He pointed out that the state government has constituted a
committee to look into actual verification of pensioners in Abia, adding that
the Ministry will soon embark on Comprehensive Physical Biometric Verification Exercise
for all pensioners in the 17 LGAs of the state to get the authentic data of
pensioners in the state government's payroll.
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The Commissioner assured that the state government is
committed towards infrastructural development of the state, and said that Abia
government is collaborating with financial institutions such as NEXIM
Bank,AFREXIM BANK,and ADB in charting a fresh cause for the overall development
of the state.
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He said that emphasis would be on Internally Generated
Revenue (IGR) and blockage of revenue leakages, adding that in order to achieve
that, MDAs would liaise with the Board of Internal Revenue to raise IGR and
would equally automate the entire system with a view to reducing human
interface in revenue generation.
