Transition Committee Chairmen in Abia State have been ordered to pay June 2012 salaries to their workers within a week.
The directive was given by the Chairman of the Committee on the Review of the Biometric Data System, Chief Cosmas Ndukwe while meeting with Heads of Administration and Treasurers of the 17 councils in the state and officials of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), the Local Government.
Chief Ndukwe who is also the Chief of Staff to the governor, said the Council chairmen have been given one week to pay the salaries or face the music as funds have been released to them.
The Chief of Staff stated that the biometric data system had come to stay, adding that it was not meant to victimize council workers, but to ensure that the ghost workers syndrome is eliminated in the local government system in the state.
Some of the Transition Committee who spoke to 247ureports.com, said they will implement the directive, stressing that payment of the salaries would commence soon.
Recall that the delay in the payment of the May and June 2012 salaries have generated protests in all the councils.
As a result of the situation, workers in most councils in the state have resorted to protests, barricading their secretariats while others held their Transition Committee chairmen hostage and pelting them with sachet water over the delay in the payment of the salaries when their counterparts have been paid.
