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NLC gives Abia AG ultimatum to
retract denial of govt’s
indebtedness to workers
on may 29, 2015 at 12:34 am in news
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By Anayo Okoli
UMUAHIA — ABIA State chapter of Nigeria Labour
Congress, NLC, has given the Accountant-
General of the state, Mr. Gabriel Onyedinefu, a
week within which to retract his statement that
the state government was not owing workers one
kobo, saying he lied about the government’s
indebtedness to workers.
Onyendilefu was quoted in a national paper as
saying that the state government had paid its
workers up till May.
But Chairman of the NLC in the state, Comrade
Uchenna Obigwe, who gave the ultimatum
yesterday, warned that should the Accountant-
General fail to retract his statement, the union
would take the case to its national headquarters
for necessary action.
The labour leader disagreed with the Accountant-
General’s position, insisting that the government
still owed its workers several months arrears of
salaries.
According to the state chairman of NLC, Comrade
Uchenna Obigwe, the Accountant-General
deceived the public by his statement.
He said over nine parastatals still owed salary
arrears, ranging from three to eight months.
Obigwe named the parastatals being owed to
include Abia State University Teaching Hospital,
Aba, which he said is owedeight months, Hospital
Management Board, seven months, Nigeria Union
of Pensioners, four months and Abia State
Universal Basic Education Board, six months.
Obigwe said teachers in the state were owed six
months salary arrears; local government workers,
three months; the state radio station, BCA, three
months; Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, four
months; and College of Education (Technical),
Arochukwu, seven months.
Obigwe said Labour was disappointed that the
Accountant-General would dish out such lies to
the public, when workers were actually suffering.
He urged the Accountant-General to retract his
statement and tell the public the truth.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/nlc-gives-abia-ag-ultimatum-to-retract-denial-of-govts-indebtedness-to-workers/

Salary arrears: Abia
State Accountant-
General lied, we are
owed 8-9months –NLC
Posted on June 1, 2015 by Flowrymz in
News, Politics // 0 Comments
The Abia State council of The Nigerian
Labour Congress (NLC) at the weekend
faulted a claim by the state Accountant-
General, Mr. Gabriel Onyedinefu that the
government is not owing workers,
describing it a lie.
The state Chairman, Comrade Uchenna
Obigwe, told newsmen in Umuahia that
the accountant-general is deceiving the
public in a report in a national daily (not
Daily Sun). Obigwe said over nine
parastatals are still being owed salaries
ranging from three to eight months.
Onyendinefu was quoted in a national
daily, saying that the state government
has paid its workers up till May.
Obigwe named the parastatals being owed
to include the State University Teaching
Hospital, Aba, eight months, Hospital
Management Board, seven months,
Nigeria Union of Pensioners, four months
and the State Universal Basic Education
Board, six months.
According to him, teachers are owed six
months, local government workers, three
months, the state radio station (BCA),
three months, state Polytechnic, Aba, four
months and College of Education
(Technical), Arochukwu, seven months.
Obigwe said Labour was disappointed that
the accountant-general would dish out
“such lies to the public”, when the
workers were actually suffering. He urged
him to retract his statement and tell the
public the truth.
The state NLC gave Onyendinefu one week
to retract his statement and tell the public
the true position of government’s
indebtedness to the workers



posh360.net/salary-arrears-abia-state-accountant-general-lied-we-are-owed-8-9months-nlc/

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the greatest lie ever told in the history of mankind.

www.nairaland.com/1439842/osun-state-gdp-higher-than

Why so much jealousy of Yorubas like this,........ ...u will choke on top our matter o......sho ti gbo

Ikpeazu and the burden of Abia workers’ salary arrears
By KESHI UKEGBU / May 21, 2015 / No Comments Less than two weeks to May 29 hand over, non- payment of workers salary arrears is still a burning issue in Abia State. In this piece, OKECHUKWU KESHI UKEGBU writes that unless the outgoing governor, Chief Theodore Orji, does the needful by paying up workers salary arrears before vacating office, he may leave a burden for his successor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu Non- payment of workers’ salaries arrears assumed the front burner during the recent Workers Day Celebration in Abia State. Parallel faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Abia State called on the state government to kindly clear all the arrears owed to government agencies and parastatals before 29th of May 2015. Chairman of the faction, Uchenna Obigwe while addressing workers loyal to his faction at Ibeku High School, Umuahia, observed with dismay that staff of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, ABSUTH were owed eight months salary arrears, while their counterpart in the Health Management Board were owed seven months. He also drew the attention of government to the non- implementation of consolidated salary structure CONHESS and CONMESS to health workers and LGAs and partial implementation in ABSUTH, HMB and Social Welfare Officers. Obigwe also lamented what he described as partial payment of pensions and gratuities for retirees, among other demands. Last week, Abia chapter of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners said it was going to demonstrate more if government failed to pay pensions to every pensioner. Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, Umuahia branch, Deacon Dan Amugo told newsmen in Umuahia that the union had informed the secretary of the Pension Board of the decision of the union. It will be recalled that the union had penultimate week shut the offices of the Abia State Pension Board and the Union secretariat in protest of the arrears of pensions owed them by Abia State government but the offices were unlocked. Amugo said that they had to lock the offices as a way of drawing government attention to the trauma their members were going through as a result of the delay in the payment of their pensions. He lamented that “gratuity is in prison in Abia State” adding that even the monthly pension has become a matter of government insensitivity to the plight of the pensioners. According to him, the problem of arrears of pensions started in October 2013 when they introduced half payment “and has remained the custom since then, no change.” “For example, our people are being owed from four to seven months arrears and when they pay it is haphazard; they pay A they will not pay B and we want the February pension to be paid to everyone or else we go back to the street. This makes the pensioners angry, that is the reason we locked the offices,” he said. Amugo said that retired permanent secretaries whose pensions range from N500, 000 and above collect their pensions by hand just like any other person “and by the time about a 100 of them is paid they would say money is finished.” He wondered why such huge amounts would not be paid through the bank. Nigerian Pilot reports that over 300 workers of Bende Local Government Area in Abia had some time ago marched to Government House in Umuahia to protest the non-payment of their five months’ salary arrears. Mr Gabriel Ukpai, one of the leaders of the peaceful protest, said that the aim was to bring their plight to the attention of state government. Ukpai alleged that the council workers’ problem started when an official of the transition committee returned N3.5 million to the state government shortly after his appointment. He described as false, claims by the official that the money was saved from the council’s allocation following the elimination of ghost workers from the council’s payroll. Ukpai alleged that the returned money was part of workers’ check-off dues and welfare levies. He said that the negative impact of the refund was the noticeable shortfall in the monthly allocations to the council. According to him, Bende local government currently receives about N15 million as monthly statutory allocations against the earlier N45 million monthly. Ukpai also said that the “refusal” of the local government to pay the workers had nothing to do with the newly introduced biometric data system for payment of salaries. Some others workers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, also called on the state government to intervene in the matter. Recently,Abia State gov¬ernment allegedly introduced a new system of sharing allocation from the federation account to lo¬cal government areas in the state. The essence of this new system christened “balloting” is that when at the Joint Account Commit¬tee, JAC, meetings lots would be drawn with ‘yes’ and ‘no’ written on them and put in a ballot box. Then the transi¬tion committee chairmen would be called upon to pick. Any local government which is lucky and the TC chairman picks ‘yes’, would get money for the workers’ sal¬ary for the given month but those that were not lucky and their chairmen picked ‘No’, would not be paid. By twist of fate, TC chairman of Bende LGA whose workers were still being owed four months’ salary in 2012, was said to have picked ‘No’ for the month of December 2014. So, frustrated by the development, the workers matched from the Bende local government headquarters to Government House, Umuahia with the intention of seeing Gov Theodore Orji to intimate him of their suffering. But security men could not allow the workers who carried placards and sang songs of sorrow access to the seat of power. One of the affected workers, who craved anonymity, lamented: “I have never seen this type of arrangement anywhere before. Local government workers have suffered so much under this government. The past ad¬ministration in the state never owed us even one month salary, but now we are owed up to four to five months arrears of salary de¬spite the fact that we now have enhanced allocation. “What we cannot understand is this intro¬duction of giving allocation accruing from the federation account through balloting when, in fact, funds allocated to each coun¬cil by the Federal Government was enough to pay workers salary. “We are talking about our December 2014 salary at this time and as we speak, we are not sure it will be paid even in this May. Our counterparts in other states were paid before Christmas while we celebrated on empty stomachs.” It is alleged that the state got into this ugly mess through its indebtedness to a bank, which receives its money at source, immediately the monthly alloca¬tions are made. The implication of this is that the state is virtually run with internally gener-ated revenue. However, the state government has taken a bold step to shore up its internally generated revenue through the deployment of Geographic Information Systems, GIS in land administration and management. The project is a Public Private Partnership ,PPP, project involving the state government and the Cyrux Global Consortium of private sector partners. The question remains: how far can the government of Okezie Ikpeazu, the governor-elect go in offsetting the huge amount of salary and pension arrears facing his administration? Analysts have suggested that if he (governor- elect) wants to start on a heartwarming note, he must do all within his powers to assuage these workers and pensioners by bending backwards to offset these arrears. It is a huge task, but one that must be done

nigerianpilot.com/ikpeazu-and-the-burden-of-abia-workers-salary-arrears/

oluks05:
Salary arrears: Abia
State Accountant-
General lied, we are
owed 8-9months –NLC
Posted on June 1, 2015 by Flowrymz in
News, Politics // 0 Comments
The Abia State council of The Nigerian
Labour Congress (NLC) at the weekend
faulted a claim by the state Accountant-
General, Mr. Gabriel Onyedinefu that the
government is not owing workers,
describing it a lie.
The state Chairman, Comrade Uchenna
Obigwe, told newsmen in Umuahia that
the accountant-general is deceiving the
public in a report in a national daily (not
Daily Sun). Obigwe said over nine
parastatals are still being owed salaries
ranging from three to eight months.
Onyendinefu was quoted in a national
daily, saying that the state government
has paid its workers up till May.
Obigwe named the parastatals being owed
to include the State University Teaching
Hospital, Aba, eight months, Hospital
Management Board, seven months,
Nigeria Union of Pensioners, four months
and the State Universal Basic Education
Board, six months.
According to him, teachers are owed six
months, local government workers, three
months, the state radio station (BCA),
three months, state Polytechnic, Aba, four
months and College of Education
(Technical), Arochukwu, seven months.
Obigwe said Labour was disappointed that
the accountant-general would dish out
“such lies to the public”, when the
workers were actually suffering. He urged
him to retract his statement and tell the
public the truth.
The state NLC gave Onyendinefu one week
to retract his statement and tell the public
the true position of government’s
indebtedness to the workers



posh360.net/salary-arrears-abia-state-accountant-general-lied-we-are-owed-8-9months-nlc/

T.A had always been labelled the worst governor in history of humanity by Ndiigbo here on NL and in the real world. We always tell ourselves the truth, nobody criticizes TA Orji and his failure in Abia than Ndiigbo.

Can we say the same of Osun? I mean Aregbesola was as bad as TA yet Yorubas kept lying to themselves to save face.

T.A has not paid workers in Abia, but Abia state courtesy of her strong informal sector is not in the middle of economic crisis like Osun is, because Osun phantom IGR was a lie, cooked up
to massage egos.

Eshinwaju:
Why so much jealousy of Yorubas like this,........ ...u will choke on top our matter o......sho ti gbo

We don't hate you, when we were criticising T A 0rgy you people making jest of us, atleast we didn't hide our bad leaders but you guys were acting like everything was rosy for South west.

pazienza:


T.A had always been labelled the worst governor in history of humanity by Ndiigbo here on NL and in the real world. We always tell ourselves the truth, nobody criticizes TA Orji and his failure in Abia than Ndiigbo.

Can we say the same of Osun? I mean Aregbesola was as bad as TA yet Yorubas kept lying to themselves to save face.

The "yorubas" that support Aregbesola are pure blinded by partisan politics and jst trying to save face. This can not be generalized to include all yorubas



NB: Actually I don't derive any pleasure posting this but you guys are jst taking this too far. Its a classic "pot calling kettle black" jst plain hypocrisy

BuddahMonk:


We don't hate you, when we were criticising T A 0rgy you people making jest of us, atleast we didn't hide our bad leaders but you guys were acting like everything was rosy for South west.

Yoruba r d most peaceful people.......but if u push us.....una go hear uwennnnn.... ...we are also d most critical of any bad leaders in our midst....unlike ur people who hide thieves like diezani.....oduahoshi......uba......under tribalism ........ ....don't forget that we were against even d Ebora of owu......

agbameta aka aresa your viewing this thread a guest, stop following Fashola with Techno phone and come and rescue your village.

Ileke your state is being torn into piieces here, come tell us how your state is faring.

Superstar1 oya come, economy of Osun is bigger that those of RussoBrazChino

Oya mek una falll in because Okezie Ikpeazu is about overtaking Aregbeshola in number of projects.

BuddahMonk:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the greatest lie ever told in the history of mankind.

www.nairaland.com/1439842/osun-state-gdp-higher-than

Dis got me laffin.


Dat "ladies and gentle men" made it undisputable.

BuddahMonk:
www.nairaland.com/1454198/ict-lifts-osuns-monthly-generated-revenue

Cc: ikengawo , pazienza ; FKO81;

Bro I no get their time today,

Eshinwaju:


[s]Yoruba r d most peaceful people.......but if u push us.....una go hear uwennnnn.... ...we are also d most critical of any bad leaders in our midst....unlike ur people who hide thieves like diezani.....oduahoshi......uba......under tribalism ........ ....don't forget that we were against even d Ebora of owu...... [/s]

Is that why your village is backward, you think we are stupid beating Orji, Orji's candidate in the last election nearly lose it to show you we are not happy with him but Ogbeni and Ajimobi won by landslide to show you you were blinded by odourless fufu and gbegiri

PedroJP:




Dis got me laffin.


Dat "ladies and gentle men" made it undisputable.

If this were to be in boxing they will call it unified lie, best lie pound for pound.

oluks05:



The "yorubas" that support Aregbesola are pure blinded by partisan politics and jst trying to save face. This can not be generalized to include all yorubas



NB: Actually I don't derive any pleasure posting this but you guys are jst taking this too far. Its a classic "pot calling kettle black" jst plain hypocrisy

This is what happen when you make a refrigerator technician and governor, since 5 years Aregbe can only commission one talking drum.

BuddahMonk:


Is that why your village is backward, you think we are stupid beating Orji, Orji's candidate in the last election nearly lose it to show you we are not happy with him but Ogbeni and Ajimobi won by landslide to show you you were blinded by odourless fufu and gbegiri

gbe enu sun jo......olodo rabata oju Eja lo mon je.....we voted for APC for better governance.....go n die....

BuddahMonk:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the greatest lie ever told in the history of mankind.

www.nairaland.com/1439842/osun-state-gdp-higher-than

I have to agree. I remembered when that article came out and the yorubas on NL kept parading it around, many people, myself included, kept on informing them to inquire the accuracy of that report. How can SW that ranked higher than SS and SE in the last nigeria's 2009 census on poverty level geopolitical zones automatically sky rocket and have the highest IGR, lowest poverty level, etc immediately their brethren took over the census department. Something sounded fishy but alas they didn't listen, accused people of hating, screamed their "sophistication", blah blah and it came bitten them in the @ss the worst way imaginable.

Something Yoruba don't realize whenever they do all this paper glory propaganda is that, yes you can do the paper glory and people would clap for you but not only are they deceiving their own people they are equally giving the politicians are huge space to loot the state dry. If the people believe their state is rich as Bleep and everything was going good and dandy thanks to the paper glory propaganda, who the f2k will pay attention when a corrupt politician is milking the state for all it got.

Southwasterners are certified chest beaters.

*Osun's Monthly IGR Jumps from N300million to N1.6billion in 3 years.

26 Sep 2013
By Emma Okonji

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2480933_chest_jpeg8e778d6db9ca4bac425fe4da63580c6d
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has disclosed that his passion with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in developing people and economies has paid off, with the state’s monthly internally generated revenue now standing at N1.6 billion.

The governor said the deployment of ICT in the state has helped to boost its finances. According to him, as soon as he became governor of the state in 2010, he deployed the use of ICT in all government transactions and within a space of one year, its monthly internally generated revenue jumped by 100 per cent, from N300 million to N600 million, and now to N1.6 billion.

Aregbesola, who spoke at a recent telecoms lecture in Lagos tagged Nigerian Telecoms Development Lecture (NITDEL), organised by the Nigerian Telecoms News Magazine, said since his inception as governor of the state, he was able to use ICT to block all loopholes leading to financial leakages in the state, adding that the state now stands on a strong financial ground to serve the people better.

Aregbesola, who delivered a paper at the telecoms lecture with the topic ‘ICT, A Tool for Societal Development,’ urged the federal and state governments to conscientiously deploy ICT in governance to enable Nigerians enjoy its many benefits.

According to him, “Since I became the governor in November 2010, I have given an important place to ICT in the way we run the business of government. One of the first areas of ICT deployment in the State of Osun under my administration was revenue reform. We immediately moved to discard the old methods of payment system and tax administration which were fraught with leakages and loopholes that were exploited to divert revenues that should accrue to the state’s coffers”.

He added, “The result was instant and stunning; our monthly internally generated revenue (IGR) jumped by 100 per cent from N300 million to N600 million in less than one year. We have since moved to consolidate our public finance reforms by deploying an ICT-driven revenue and taxation management system, called the Osun State Government Electronic Banking System of Revenue Cycle Management (OSSG-EBS-RCM), and today our monthly IGR stands at N1.6 billion.”

The system, he said, allowed for online Direct Bank Lodgement System (DBLS) of the revenue collection process. The DBLS, with its communication, database software, accounting and reconciliation and monitoring components, enables the capturing of all payments information and other banking transactions on-line, he said.

The system also generates reconciled cash-book on all banks' accounts for the Accountant General’s office; generates summary and specialised reports for tax stations and other agencies as required; and sets up electronic link between tax stations and other agencies with the central information pool incorporating applicable restrictions, the governor added.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ict-lifts-osun-s-monthly-generated-revenue-to-n1-6bn/159931/

pazienza:


T.A had always been labelled the worst governor in history of humanity by Ndiigbo here on NL and in the real world. We always tell ourselves the truth, nobody criticizes TA Orji and his failure in Abia than Ndiigbo.

Can we say the same of Osun? I mean Aregbesola was as bad as TA yet Yorubas kept lying to themselves to save face.

T.A has not paid workers in Abia, but Abia state courtesy of her strong informal sector is not in the middle of economic crisis like Osun is, because Osun phantom IGR was a lie, cooked up
to massage egos.

imagine trying to use Orji to insult Ndigbo. We told you ourselves he was trash. the SW on the other hand lives on lies

highest standard of living - brown roof slums
most education - least educated in the south
most enlightened - juju, evil forest, human sacrifice, pedophilia blood oath capital of nigeria
Best politicians - Awolowo was the only founding father to never be a president or pm, buhari just stole their ACN
best governed - all states in sever debt, little to no real development
most industrialized - all industries owned by igbos germans and chinese.

BuddahMonk:

Buhahaha Frustration is killing you slowly. I love this I swear.

Southwest

BuddahMonk:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the greatest lie ever told in the history of mankind.

www.nairaland.com/1439842/osun-state-gdp-higher-than

Buddah my homie, i swear the yorrubers will go to their shrine to invoke their gods kill you one day.
Even in their churches, their prayer points will be your death. Pls have mercy on them.

pazienza:


T.A had always been labelled the worst governor in history of humanity by Ndiigbo here on NL and in the real world. We always tell ourselves the truth, nobody criticizes TA Orji and his failure in Abia than Ndiigbo.

Can we say the same of Osun? I mean Aregbesola was as bad as TA yet Yorubas kept lying to themselves to save face.

T.A has not paid workers in Abia, but Abia state courtesy of her strong informal sector is not in the middle of economic crisis like Osun is, because Osun phantom IGR was a lie, cooked up
to massage egos.

That what happens when you have a refridgerator technician as a governor like osun. Ibn raufu argbefufu is their lord, he command them to go hungry whenever he feels like.