Benue: Former Lawmakers Demand outstanding payment of N6.9


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Forum of Former Elected Councillors from 2017-2019 in Benue  embarked on a peaceful protest on Tuesday in Makurdi, the State capital, over non-payment of their entitlements.

Leader of the former councillors, Mr Titus Ikyor, said that they were demanding for the outstanding payment of N6,954,579 for each of them as a shortfall of the actual renumeration due to them.

The Permanent Commissioner, Local Government Service Commission  Makurdi, Dr Tsetim Ayargwer who addressed the former Lawmakers at the commission on behalf of the Chairman, Dr Bem Meladu said that they were only charged with the responsibility to employ, discipline, transfer and promote Local Government staff. 

Ayargwer reiterated that they were not responsible for payment of salaries but he promised to convey the complaint to the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs for attention.

Meanwhile, the Special Adviser to Gov. Samuel Ortom on Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Barr Kenneth Achabo, while addressing the protesters at the gate of Secretary to the State Government said that the state government had made frantic efforts to pay salaries with the little available funds and certain payments would be made at the end of October.

Achabo added that it would be a continuous process, assuring that their issue too would not be left out.

He stressed that what the state was experiencing was a global economic challenge.

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