GOVERNOR Theodore Orji has warned against delay in payment of the monthly salaries of local council workers in Abia State over late submission of salary vouchers by some councils.He directed that henceforth, those councils that submit their wage bills within the stipulated time should be paid.The Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs told journalists two weeks ago that the delayed salary payment was due to late submission of wage bills/vouchers by the treasurers of the councils to the auditor general for vetting before the funds are released.
Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mr. Ochi Ochu, while explaining the reason for the delay in the workers’ February 2012 salaries, said by February 28, only nine of the 17 councils had submitted their vouchers, which were supposed to be turned in between 10 and 15 of every month.He added that the funds for the salaries for that month consequently, were not released to the 17 councils but rather paid into the banks, pending when all of them submitted their vouchers and they were vetted.Not satisfied with the explanation, the governor queried non-release of the money to the councils that submitted their vouchers timely, saying “those councils that failed to submit their vouchers should not punish those that did theirs on time. I expected the ministry to have paid those councils that submitted their vouchers so that those that did not would suffer delayed release of their salaries.When the salaries of all the 17 councils are delayed, the council workers would go to town blackmailing and accusing the government of diverting funds meant for their salaries even when the government had made the funds available.http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81235:orji-warns-against-delay-in-council-workers-salaries&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

PLEASE CHANGE THE TITLE TO:

[size=18pt]GOVT ORJI AGREES TO DELAY COUNCIL WORKERS' SALARIES DUE TO LATE SUBMISSION OF VOUCHERS[/size]...

good gesture of governance..this will effect a change that will facilitate due payment of worker's salaries

It is so shameful that you will be praying for a good nation and be talking anyhow. On what will you base to pay the salary?do you know that the same LGA staff pad their payroll and in the bid to use delay system will submit it at the 11th hour. If you need the true state of Abia councils i will tell you.

Imagine someone being called Ochi Ochu. I can just see everybody in the room saying "bless you" when they call that mans name. Anyway back to the post. I really wish when they say things like this they follow it up with what was done to make sure it will not happen again. Who was suspended without pay and what apologies was given to the workers. Part of the reason why we have incompetent civil servants is that there is never any real consequence when they drop the ball.

dis guy dey copy rochas okorocha oooo, from selling kerosene at N50 now to salary delay becos rochas suspennded 3 commisioners for delaying the salary of civil servants...dis man want to make his name sound good,but he is a fowl.....

Dats nyc!!!

Tanx for your contribution, Billygene. Gov. T.A Orji is a GENERATIONAL LEADER raised by God to do a unique work of LIBERATION, REBIRTH AND ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT OF OUR DEAR STATE OF ABIA. When all efforts to extricate Abia from the stranglehold of Orji Uzor Kalu failed, God positioned OCHENDO to be our Champion and with Courage and Compassion he delivered Political, Social, Economic and Spiritual LIBERTY to the once enslaved state. Today, T.A Orji is the Father and Founder of the NEW ABIA. He is taking NECESSARY BUT SOMETIMES PAINFUL DECISIONS IN THE GREATER INTEREST OF ABIANS AND THE REAL ABIANS ARE VERY HAPPY AND SATISFIED WITH HIS EFFORTS.Before the advent of T.A Orji's government, LGAs in Abia were owing workers up to thirteen months salary arrears. Aba North closed shop at a time and Council Chairmen were borrowing billions from banks, making returns to Orji Kalu's mother and siblings while the state groaned in debt. When T.A Orji came, he promptly paid ALL the outstanding salaries, promoted ALL civil servants to the next grade level, restored normalcy and motivation and accountability. AS YOU KNOW, T.A Orji is the first Governor in the South East that paid not just the minimum wage but a lot more. Abia workers have NEVER COMPLAINED nor gone on strike because of the very UNDERSTANDING NATURE AND TOTAL ENCOURAGEMENT they receive from T.A Orji. So, YOU CANNOT CRY MORE THAN THE BEREAVED !!! What we are talking about here is that GOVERNMENT HAS RELEASED SALARIES AS AT WHEN DUE BUT BUREAUCRATS AT THE LGAs delayed the processes AND THE GOVERNOR INTERVENED ON BEHALF OF THE WORKERS. Is that a crime? You must distinguish between your primitive hatred of the person of the governor and informed analysis of policy matters.WHERE WERE YOU AT THE TIME ORJI UZOR KALU HELD ABIA HOSTAGE-BUILDING BANKS IN GAMBIA, SUN NEWSPAPER IN LAGOS, SLOK AIRLINES, SHIPS, PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST, VILLA MANSION, NEYA COURT, POTOMARC MANSION AND SIPHONED ABIA MONEY THROUGH COUNTLESS NUMBER OF CONDUITS? WHAT DID YOU DO ? WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME AND FROM WHICH LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARE YOU ? Have you not asked yourself why despite all the hate campaign against T.A Orji in the media, the man still WON OVERWHELMINGLY IN THE LAST ELECTION? TODAY, PEOPLE LIKE ONYEMA UGOCHUKWU, ENYINNAYA ABARIBE, VIN OGBULAFOR, IKE NWACHUKWU, OJO MADUEKWE, ADOLPHUS NWAGBARA, TONY UKASANYA, DAN NWANKWO, CHUKWU NWACHUKWU, MAO OHUABUNWA, UCHE CHUKWUMERIJE, NKECHI NWOGU,ACHO NWAKANMA, EMMA NWAKA,SUNNY AKU, CHRIS ENWEREMADU, CHRIS NKWONTA, VICTORIA AKANWA, LADY AGUIYI IRONSI, EMEKA WOGU, ACHO OBIOMA, AUSTIN AKOBUNDU, HENRY IKOH AND INDEED ANYBODY THAT IS ANYBODY IN ABIA STATE IS STANDING SOLIDLY BEHIND T.A ORJI!! YOU CANNOT BE MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE. You can only fiddle your frustrated phone in anguish while T.A Orji dutifully carries out his onerous task of laying a solid foundation for Abia posterity. ALREADY, HE HAS RESTORED OUR POLITICAL LIBERTY, HARMONY AND SECURITY. HE IS NOW PAINSTAKINGLY TACKLING THE CHALLENGE OF INFRASTRUCTURE. HE IS FOCUSED AND WILL CONTINUE TO RISE DESPITE THE SHENANIGANS OF IMPLACABLE CRITICS. ABIANS DO NOT OWE YOU OR ANY OF THE FEW DISGRUNTLED IMO AND ANAMBRA PEOPLE LIVING IN ABA ANY APOLOGY FOR RECLAIMING OUR DESTINY.WE TOOK A RECIPROCAL DECISION TO SEND HOME THEIR WORKERS MORE THAN TEN YEARS AFTER THEY SENT OUR CITIZENS PACKING. THAT'S WHAT NIGERIA RECENTLY DID TO SOUTH AFRICANS WHEN THEY GOT FUNNY. IT IS STANDARD PRACTICE AND T.A ORJI IS A GREAT ABIA PATRIOT FOR DOING THAT JUSTICE TO OUR CITIZEN. AFTER ALL, THEY WERE THE PEOPLE ORJI KALU USED FOR TEN YEARS AS COLONIAL WARRANT CHIEFS TO SUBJUGATE OUR PEOPLE. THEY CAN SCREAM AND SHOUT AT THE STADIUM BUT TRUE ABIANS REMAIN HAPPY WITH WHAT T.A ORJI IS DOING ON THEIR BEHALF. ON ELECTION DAY, THEY WILL STILL MIGRATE BACK TO THEIR STATES WHILE WE STAY HERE TO DETERMINE OUR FUTURE. - EZECHIKAMNAYO, UMUAHIA, ABIA STATE.

Sobo4u: Tanx for your contribution, Billygene. Gov. T.A Orji is a GENERATIONAL LEADER raised by God to do a unique work of LIBERATION, REBIRTH AND ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT OF OUR DEAR STATE OF ABIA. When all efforts to extricate Abia from the stranglehold of Orji Uzor Kalu failed, God positioned OCHENDO to be our Champion and with Courage and Compassion he delivered Political, Social, Economic and Spiritual LIBERTY to the once enslaved state. Today, T.A Orji is the Father and Founder of the NEW ABIA. He is taking NECESSARY BUT SOMETIMES PAINFUL DECISIONS IN THE GREATER INTEREST OF ABIANS AND THE REAL ABIANS ARE VERY HAPPY AND SATISFIED WITH HIS EFFORTS.Before the advent of T.A Orji's government, LGAs in Abia were owing workers up to thirteen months salary arrears. Aba North closed shop at a time and Council Chairmen were borrowing billions from banks, making returns to Orji Kalu's mother and siblings while the state groaned in debt. When T.A Orji came, he promptly paid ALL the outstanding salaries, promoted ALL civil servants to the next grade level, restored normalcy and motivation and accountability. AS YOU KNOW, T.A Orji is the first Governor in the South East that paid not just the minimum wage but a lot more. Abia workers have NEVER COMPLAINED nor gone on strike because of the very UNDERSTANDING NATURE AND TOTAL ENCOURAGEMENT they receive from T.A Orji. So, YOU CANNOT CRY MORE THAN THE BEREAVED !!! What we are talking about here is that GOVERNMENT HAS RELEASED SALARIES AS AT WHEN DUE BUT BUREAUCRATS AT THE LGAs delayed the processes AND THE GOVERNOR INTERVENED ON BEHALF OF THE WORKERS. Is that a crime? You must distinguish between your primitive hatred of the person of the governor and informed analysis of policy matters.WHERE WERE YOU AT THE TIME ORJI UZOR KALU HELD ABIA HOSTAGE-BUILDING BANKS IN GAMBIA, SUN NEWSPAPER IN LAGOS, SLOK AIRLINES, SHIPS, PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST, VILLA MANSION, NEYA COURT, POTOMARC MANSION AND SIPHONED ABIA MONEY THROUGH COUNTLESS NUMBER OF CONDUITS? WHAT DID YOU DO ? WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME AND FROM WHICH LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARE YOU ? It is anonymous people like you that are destroying this nation. YOU ARE JUST A PETTY, BITTER AND DISGRUNTLED ELEMENT.Have you not asked yourself why despite all the hate campaign against T.A Orji in the media, the man still WON OVERWHELMINGLY IN THE LAST ELECTION? TODAY, PEOPLE LIKE ONYEMA UGOCHUKWU, ENYINNAYA ABARIBE, VIN OGBULAFOR, IKE NWACHUKWU, OJO MADUEKWE, ADOLPHUS NWAGBARA, TONY UKASANYA, DAN NWANKWO, CHUKWU NWACHUKWU, MAO OHUABUNWA, UCHE CHUKWUMERIJE, NKECHI NWOGU,ACHO NWAKANMA, EMMA NWAKA,SUNNY AKU, CHRIS ENWEREMADU, CHRIS NKWONTA, VICTORIA AKANWA, LADY AGUIYI IRONSI, EMEKA WOGU, ACHO OBIOMA, AUSTIN AKOBUNDU, HENRY IKOH AND INDEED ANYBODY THAT IS ANYBODY IN ABIA STATE IS STANDING SOLIDLY BEHIND T.A ORJI!! YOU CANNOT BE MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE. You can only fiddle your frustrated phone in anguish while T.A Orji dutifully carries out his onerous task of laying a solid foundation for Abia posterity. ALREADY, HE HAS RESTORED OUR POLITICAL LIBERTY, HARMONY AND SECURITY. HE IS NOW PAINSTAKINGLY TACKLING THE CHALLENGE OF INFRASTRUCTURE. HE WILL CONTINUE TO RISE WHILE YOU WHINE AWAY. Such is life and there is nothing your unbridled envy can do to affect him. ABIANS DO NOT OWE YOU OR ANY OF THE FEW DISGRUNTLED IMO AND ANAMBRA PEOPLE LIVING IN ABA ANY APOLOGY FOR RECLAIMING OUR DESTINY.WE TOOK A RECIPROCAL DECISION TO SEND HOME THEIR WORKERS MORE THAN TEN YEARS AFTER THEY SENT OUR CITIZENS PACKING. THAT'S WHAT NIGERIA RECENTLY DID TO SOUTH AFRICANS WHEN THEY GOT FUNNY. IT IS STANDARD PRACTICE AND T.A ORJI IS A GREAT ABIA PATRIOT FOR DOING THAT JUSTICE TO OUR CITIZEN. AFTER ALL, THEY WERE THE PEOPLE ORJI KALU USED FOR TEN YEARS AS COLONIAL WARRANT CHIEFS TO SUBJUGATE OUR PEOPLE. THEY CAN SCREAM AND SHOUT AT THE STADIUM BUT TRUE ABIANS REMAIN HAPPY WITH WHAT T.A ORJI IS DOING ON THEIR BEHALF. ON ELECTION DAY, THEY WILL STILL MIGRATE BACK TO THEIR STATES WHILE WE STAY HERE TO DETERMINE OUR FUTURE. So shut up your mouth and mind your own business. BILLY IS THE NAME OF A HUNGRY, ANGRY DOG FEEDING ON LOCAL SHIT IN THE SLUMS OF AJEGUNLE- BY THEIR NAME YOU SHALL KNOW THEM- SEE YOUR STUPID LIFE ! - EZECHIKAMNAYO, UMUAHIA, ABIA STATE.

phew..they obviously didn't teach you punctuation and sentence construction in school....

t.a orji recrits on the loose... Dont fool us we know all that.....first gov to pay minimum wage indeed....supporters club.... Idiot.

OCHENDO carry on with the good work you have started. may God see you through

[s][color=#990000]Tanx for your contribution, Billygene. Gov. T.A Orji is a GENERATIONAL LEADER raised by God to do a unique work of LIBERATION, REBIRTH AND ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT OF OUR DEAR STATE OF ABIA. When all efforts to extricate Abia from the stranglehold of Orji Uzor Kalu failed, God positioned OCHENDO to be our Champion and with Courage and Compassion he delivered Political, Social, Economic and Spiritual LIBERTY to the once enslaved state. Today, T.A Orji is the Father and Founder of the NEW ABIA. He is taking NECESSARY BUT SOMETIMES PAINFUL DECISIONS IN THE GREATER INTEREST OF ABIANS AND THE REAL ABIANS ARE VERY HAPPY AND SATISFIED WITH HIS EFFORTS.Before the advent of T.A Orji's government, LGAs in Abia were owing workers up to thirteen months salary arrears. Aba North closed shop at a time and Council Chairmen were borrowing billions from banks, making returns to Orji Kalu's mother and siblings while the state groaned in debt. When T.A Orji came, he promptly paid ALL the outstanding salaries, promoted ALL civil servants to the next grade level, restored normalcy and motivation and accountability. AS YOU KNOW, T.A Orji is the first Governor in the South East that paid not just the minimum wage but a lot more. Abia workers have NEVER COMPLAINED nor gone on strike because of the very UNDERSTANDING NATURE AND TOTAL ENCOURAGEMENT they receive from T.A Orji. So, YOU CANNOT CRY MORE THAN THE BEREAVED !!! What we are talking about here is that GOVERNMENT HAS RELEASED SALARIES AS AT WHEN DUE BUT BUREAUCRATS AT THE LGAs delayed the processes AND THE GOVERNOR INTERVENED ON BEHALF OF THE WORKERS. Is that a crime? You must distinguish between your primitive hatred of the person of the governor and informed analysis of policy matters.WHERE WERE YOU AT THE TIME ORJI UZOR KALU HELD ABIA HOSTAGE-BUILDING BANKS IN GAMBIA, SUN NEWSPAPER IN LAGOS, SLOK AIRLINES, SHIPS, PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST, VILLA MANSION, NEYA COURT, POTOMARC MANSION AND SIPHONED ABIA MONEY THROUGH COUNTLESS NUMBER OF CONDUITS? WHAT DID YOU DO ? WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME AND FROM WHICH LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARE YOU ? Have you not asked yourself why despite all the hate campaign against T.A Orji in the media, the man still WON OVERWHELMINGLY IN THE LAST ELECTION? TODAY, PEOPLE LIKE ONYEMA UGOCHUKWU, ENYINNAYA ABARIBE, VIN OGBULAFOR, IKE NWACHUKWU, OJO MADUEKWE, ADOLPHUS NWAGBARA, TONY UKASANYA, DAN NWANKWO, CHUKWU NWACHUKWU, MAO OHUABUNWA, UCHE CHUKWUMERIJE, NKECHI NWOGU,ACHO NWAKANMA, EMMA NWAKA,SUNNY AKU, CHRIS ENWEREMADU, CHRIS NKWONTA, VICTORIA AKANWA, LADY AGUIYI IRONSI, EMEKA WOGU, ACHO OBIOMA, AUSTIN AKOBUNDU, HENRY IKOH AND INDEED ANYBODY THAT IS ANYBODY IN ABIA STATE IS STANDING SOLIDLY BEHIND T.A ORJI!! YOU CANNOT BE MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE. You can only fiddle your frustrated phone in anguish while T.A Orji dutifully carries out his onerous task of laying a solid foundation for Abia posterity. ALREADY, HE HAS RESTORED OUR POLITICAL LIBERTY, HARMONY AND SECURITY. HE IS NOW PAINSTAKINGLY TACKLING THE CHALLENGE OF INFRASTRUCTURE. HE IS FOCUSED AND WILL CONTINUE TO RISE DESPITE THE SHENANIGANS OF IMPLACABLE CRITICS. ABIANS DO NOT OWE YOU OR ANY OF THE FEW DISGRUNTLED IMO AND ANAMBRA PEOPLE LIVING IN ABA ANY APOLOGY FOR RECLAIMING OUR DESTINY.WE TOOK A RECIPROCAL DECISION TO SEND HOME THEIR WORKERS MORE THAN TEN YEARS AFTER THEY SENT OUR CITIZENS PACKING. THAT'S WHAT NIGERIA RECENTLY DID TO SOUTH AFRICANS WHEN THEY GOT FUNNY. IT IS STANDARD PRACTICE AND T.A ORJI IS A GREAT ABIA PATRIOT FOR DOING THAT JUSTICE TO OUR CITIZEN. AFTER ALL, THEY WERE THE PEOPLE ORJI KALU USED FOR TEN YEARS AS COLONIAL WARRANT CHIEFS TO SUBJUGATE OUR PEOPLE. THEY CAN SCREAM AND SHOUT AT THE STADIUM BUT TRUE ABIANS REMAIN HAPPY WITH WHAT T.A ORJI IS DOING ON THEIR BEHALF. ON ELECTION DAY, THEY WILL STILL MIGRATE BACK TO THEIR STATES WHILE WE STAY HERE TO DETERMINE OUR FUTURE. - EZECHIKAMNAYO, UMUAHIA, ABIA STATE.[/s][/color]

My brother Ezechikamnayo,your insensitivity and rooted ignorant over the sorry tough but revocable quagmire state that your brother Orji has subjected good people of Abians.
Yes i know you to have been a crunch sycophant from long time even when i met you in world Bank housing estate Um your thought was not of progressive but downgrading your
little poor fish head.In your last post herein forum was of insult melted on the person of great Owele Rochas and you think your master T.A could be of any match to Owele?
Why would your master always fond of monthly FG allocation without internal generating revenue?What happened to our major moribund industries after his mouth washed promises?
You mentioned his followers including Uchechukwumerije who i know never shear the same idea with T.A.I know Biafra mouth peace very much and cannot be compared with the likes
of your Okija master.has their been anything of money generating revenue introduced by that criminal except chronic taxation as a criminal who needs fast money as time was against
him of cause.
You have never been a good youth representative since your migration and for one reason of sycophancy!

These are the on-going projects of governor T.A. Orji, that are overt as the new state secretariat, international conference centre and new Government House, Umuahia, new Umuahia markets at Ubani-Ibeku and that of timber in Ndume-Ibeku.Others are the dualisation of Umuahia Township roads, diagnostic centres at Aba and Umuahia, including over 260 health centres in various communities across the state.In Aba, he listed pedestrian bridge at the state polytechnic, scooping of major drainage, Ohanku road, the Ukwu Mango road at Ariaria Market, New Motor Park at Osisisoma, among others.

donzico2: These are the on-going projects of governor T.A. Orji, that are overt as the new state secretariat, international conference centre and new Government House, Umuahia, new Umuahia markets at Ubani-Ibeku and that of timber in Ndume-Ibeku.Others are the dualisation of Umuahia Township roads, diagnostic centres at Aba and Umuahia, including over 260 health centres in various communities across the state.In Aba, he listed pedestrian bridge at the state polytechnic, scooping of major drainage, Ohanku road, the Ukwu Mango road at Ariaria Market, New Motor Park at Osisisoma, among others.

Imagine your statement "on-going projects".You are a total poor brain and poo by mentioning 260 health jamborees centers .Why wouldn't you ask your brain how many local government are in Abia State and where were they stationed and how equipped and staffers can you vouch for.What should baffle you is that this man travels to oversees but cannot implement what he sees there in his State.What is the quality of common street light in Umuahia Abia State and how many years would it take him to finish and relocate Abia modern market to it,s permanent site?I was aware the day he broke the land for the mentioned market and it's more than three years now and how long do you think it will take that criminal to finish it up and relocate that slum called township market.i refused vehemently to eulogize him of whatsoever little he is doing neither will i praise his predecessor "MAMACRACY Okija",but against his stealing and poor policies.He should follow suit like other good performing leaders.Michael Iheonukara Okpara did never treated the whole easterners with disdain and as such T A who i think should lead by example has failed the progressives like crowd of us who strongly believed in him when he loosed himself from the chains of bondage.let us wait and see as better future unfolds before good Abians.Ibori's case will be better....QED!

@Billygene ur personal beef with T.A Orji i think is inherent,so it shouldn't be applied to his Govt policies and projects going on in Abia.Let me inform you since i know you are from Abia with an anonymous name.250 health centers mention by (donzico2) is correct bc i am aware of a particular village in Isuikwuato LGA where there is three(3) health centers now- Ndundu,Nvurunvu,and Umumara all in uturu in Isuikwuato LGA has one each and is verifiable.