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‘You Lied, I’m Not Owing Salaries’ – Ikpeazu Replies Otti

Abia State he Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has denied claims that he is owing civil servants’ salaries for several months.Information Guide Nigeria

DAILY POST reports that the Governor-elect of Abia State, Alex Otti, had said he contested the governorship election because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government is owing workers salaries and pensions, among others.JAMB Result

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Responding to Otti’s claims on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, Ikpeazu said the state government has 31,000 workers in its workforce and 29,000 of them are up to date in salary payments.

According to DAILY POST, he said: “I have 31,000 workers in Abia workforce and 29,000 of them are up to date as we speak in salary payment… Parastatals receive subvention. I don’t pay their salaries because they are revenue-generating agencies of government.”JAMB Portal

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Ikpeazu added: “But I don’t run away from responsibility, the issue of pension has been there perennially for the past 24 years. I did as much as I could, this government since inception passed through two to three recessions.

“When I came, within three months of my administration, I paid eleven months arrears of salary. Those eleven months were there while I was governor. So, if you take up position as governor you have accepted to take over both liability and asset and I don’t like to complain.NYSC Portal

“I didn’t have to talk about what my predecessors did not do because what gave me my job in the first place was that there were things they didn’t do. So, for somebody to come and make a sweeping statement that no salary is being paid is a lie, I am not owing any core civil servant salary.”