In response to the viral screenshots of alleged salary alert received by some civil servants in Kogi State and the widespread reports of ridiculous percentage payment to the civil servants by the Kogi State government, officials have carried out bank verification of the transactions in the screenshots to ascertain their authenticity.

The reference numbers of some of the purported alerts revealed that they are fake and could have emanated from mischief-makers attempting to discredit the performance of governor Yahaya Bello in Kogi State or creating a malicious false impression of the governor as he is being called upon by Nigerians to declare interest for 2023 presidency.

According to the transaction tracking done by the officials of the government in the presence of some concerned citizens in undisclosed banks in Lokoja, the reference numbers in the viral screenshots including that of N2,500 are invalid.

The officials in a media briefing after the exercise monitored by journalists explained that no civil servant can earn N2,500 no matter the circumstances, not even those who most have taken one loan or the other, noting that there’s a benchmark for salaries for Civil Servants in the state.

They said they are aware that efforts are being made from certain quarters to frustrated the presidential ambition of Governor Bello by fake news, urging that the public should disregard such unverifiable stories on social media.

The delegates additionally disclosed that the Kogi Civil service before the coming of Governor Yahaya Bello was a huge mess, to the level that the government of Bello met a huge wage bill and a huge debt. This was a result of an undefined salary structure and over-bloated service compounded by ghost workers and indiscriminate recruitment of people into the civil service with no regard for due processes but political compensation. The governor was able to reform the civil service and cleared backlogs.

On what the public should do whenever such doctored information comes their way, they said the state civil service board is always there to clarify everyone on all matters relating to salaries, adding that Kogi civil service is automated enabling salaries to be paid before the 28th of every month since the removal of ghost workers in 2016.

Source: https://community.vanguardngr.com/forum/topics/kogi-fake-viral-salary-screenshots-transaction-references-show-it

screenshot the real one and show Nigerians, not this lame attempt at debunking.

Usual Afonja media

So, how much una dey pay them?

Weyrey people


My Old Aunt is a retired pensioner , she retired as Head Mistress at a primary school in Isanlu and also got paid 10,000 last week as her January pension, sometimes it gets as worse as 7000 all this without any valid reason

The burden of paying her MTN Luminous solar, fuelling Gen, buying hypertension drugs, and paying her maid is squarely on the shoulders of me and my cousins... Yet Yeye Bello that Ogun would kill still pay some nuisance to lie

Na Ogun go kill Yeye Bello and his media backers



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Believe this useless and stupid watery defence at your own peril

Yahaya Bello and Niger state governor Sanni Bello now APC chairman, are the most useless governors in Nigeria

They pay salaries by percentage and boast about it

Kaiii. Salary on low percentage... Na Local government workers the suffer pass.

Yaya Bello is a very useless man... paying kogi workers stipends and putting them into suffering...

Let's see the real one oooo!

gistray:
Usual Afonja media

Go and create your own media and stop crying everywhere...twerp

iyapont:
Go and create your own media and stop crying everywhere...twerp

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gistray:

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stale

iyapont:
stale

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Bello has paid his media lapdogs again.

Bloody liars

This guy opened this account yesterday, 13th March to debunk the truth, what a world. This is to show that Kogi Government is ashamed of the useless salary tgey do pay. The government if the day is so inhuman. Instead of paying the labourers their wages according to how it is, the government takes the Lion share of people's sweat to probably use it for presidential campaign of which he can ever win. God is watching you all

Lies

Naija

Una go accept b4?
Paid journalists dem!!! Believe a 9Ja politician and journalist, at your own peril

Bello paid local government workers 17% of their pay this month. I am from Kogi State and this is an authentic information.

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To the idiot that quoted me below, You want me to share screenshots of the alert my mum received this month because of you? I think you are one of his paid online evangelists. Nigerians deserves to know the truth.

He has never paid more than 30% to local government workers before. The reason why this month's payment is going viral is because he has never paid this low before

If you don't gerrit, forget abourrit

Go to church, remove that big polo and stop cooking rubbish. And you, off that gospel music and go to church, you no be God mate.

okololo:
Bello paid local government workers 17% of their pay this month. I am from Kogi State and this is an authentic information.

He paid a minimum of 80%.


Prove the damn thing.

Whoever wrote this thinks Nigerians are stupid

Well, we always show them that we are

Because if not, there won't be a way people will be mentioning names like Yahaya Hello and Tinubu in the Nigerian presidential election

ProfAmaben:
Bloody liars

Lol fake indeed.... speaking from kogi-state.

All the people when promise me money just dey bring excuse.............the percentage thing is real people are complaining...........

But seriously we have some stupid fools who believe All rubbish throw at them especially dis nairaland. How can someone be paid 2k as salary for One full month.

Yeye Bello doing the most

I am pleased that the entire front page is of people who are against this extremely fake publication... Something that numerous friends and family from kogi state have complained about.. Na wetin una dey call fake

Owoicho4040:

Source: https://community.vanguardngr.com/forum/topics/kogi-fake-viral-salary-screenshots-transaction-references-show-it

Na lie. Damage control attempt is too late. Abort abort abort.