Delay Tactics... Governor Ortom Declares State Of Emergency On Payment Workers Salary

Whatever that means its left for the Benue state workers to figure out since their salaries were last paid in November, 2016. Despite collecting bailout, paris club refund as other states to clear backlog of salaries, the Benue state government has employed delay tactics in the name of emergency. 

This Means that, workers will have to wait as the government has declared what it tag as 'emergency on salary payment'. 


This was disclosed by the governor's Senior Special Assistant on ICT and Media Mr Tahav Agerzua. He wrote; The Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom, today declared a state of emergency on salary payment.
Governor Ortom made the announcement at a meeting with Labour leaders at the New Banquet Hall of the Benue Peoples House in Makurdi.
He also set up a committee to work out details of its implementation.
The committee has the Deputy Governor, Engr. Benson Abounu as chairman and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mr Matthew Uyina, as Secretary. 
Other members are Commissioners of Finance, Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, their colleagues in the Ministries of Health and Information as well as Advisers on Labour, Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Development Cooperation, Rural Development and Cooperatives.
Labour leaders on the committee are Comrade Godwin Anya, State Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Terungwa Igbe, President, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Comrade Philip Ter Nongu, State Chairman, Joint Councils one, two and three, and Comrade Ordue Tartenger, Trade Union Congress chairman. 
Governor Ortom stated that the implications of the declaration included prioritization of salary payment as well as the exploration of every means of obtaining funds to clear arrears including borrowing.
He said the committee's terms of reference would include pruning of the State wage bill, fishing out ghost workers and perpetrators of fraud with regard to the issue.

However, some state workers have already taken to social media to register their grievances ,tagging the governors move as delay tactics.