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There was a great jubilation around all the local government areas in Kogi State as the workers extolled the state government for commencing the payment of 85 per cent of their salaries.
Also, the pensioners were not left out in the payment scheme as they received 100 per cent of their monies, the first in the last 16 years.
Some of the workers expressed delight about the recent development.
According to Salome Anka, a workers in the state, “I only hope that Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo will be magnanimous enough to sustain the tempo of the payment and possibly increase it to 100 per cent. The hardship is just too much.”
Also, the Chairman of the Kogi State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, Engineer Clement Ohida, thanked Gov. Ododo for restoring the payment of 100 per cent pension to pensioners at the local government level.
Ohida expressed gratitude to the state governor for listening to the plea of pensioners at the local government level.
“We thank Gov. Ododo for bringing us to this level of payment of 100 per cent pension after several years. By this feat, he has proven to be pensioners friendly, and we are not taking it for granted.
“We equally want to appreciate the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Barr. Deedat Ozigi Salami for his effort while working with Gov. Ododo towards ensuring that our cries and tears of several years are addressed,” Ohida stressed.
