Unpaid Salaries: Bayelsa Govt Chides Opposition For Suicide Rumour
Bayelsa State Government has accused the opposition in the state, for making up the story that one of its workers committed suicide last week due to unpaid wages, running to 13 months.
In a release, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Daniel Iworiso-Mackson, said the story was untrue, misleading and a calculated attempt by the All Progressives Congress, (APC) to score cheap political points by alleging that the government was responsible for the death of one Mr. Peter Ogiero.
The late, Ogiero, an engineer with the State Water Board, was alleged to have committed suicide over unpaid salaries.
But the State Government said there is no iota of truth in the story, as it does not owe its workers, stressing that the state is one of the few in the country that remains committed to the welfare of its workers.
The statement disclosed that Governor Henry Seriake Dickson on Friday ordered the immediate payment of September salaries to the entire workforce despite the dwindling allocation from the federation account.
“Contrary to the reports, our findings show that the deceased is not on the payroll of the State Government and neither did he commit suicide,” the statement added.
A family source revealed that, the deceased was suffering from partial paralysis, which was responsible for his death.
However, Governor Dickson has Thursday expressed concern over the steady decline in the revenues accruable to the state from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), saying that the state received less than one billion naira in August and September this year.
Governor Dickson disclosed this in his remarks at a dinner organised as part of activities commemorating Nigeria’s 55th Independence Anniversary and 19 years of the creation of Bayelsa State at the Banquet Hall, Yenagoa.
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