{"id":17278,"date":"2019-04-27T14:55:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T14:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17278"},"modified":"2019-04-27T14:55:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T14:55:41","slug":"38-months-workers-salary-i-know-ive-goofed-gov-bello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17278","title":{"rendered":"38 months workers salary: I know I\u2019ve goofed \u2013Gov. Bello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kogi state governor, Yahaya\u00a0Bello\u00a0for the first time publicly admitted that his administration has committed blunder by owing workers between eight and 38 months due to the over two years staff screening exercise he initiated.<br \/>\nGovernor\u00a0Bello\u00a0who spoke through his Chief of Staff, Edward Onoja at the 7th NLC\u00a0 quadrennial congress on Thursday in Lokoja said \u201cwhen a child made mistakes he should admit he made mistakes, we have made mistakes and we are correcting it\u201d<br \/>\nOnoja who was unusually sober at the ceremony was reacting to NLC chairman\u2019s speech , Comrade Onuh Edoka who said workers were dying in dozens due to the non payment of salaries as government was owing them between eight and 38 months.<br \/>\nEdoka\u00a0 had said workers in the state have been reduced to beggars as they could not meet their domestic responsibilities while their children are driven out of school due to non payment\u00a0 of school fees while\u00a0 the condition of\u00a0 pensioners and local government workers some of who he said are being paid \u201cmiserable percentages of their salaries\u201d are most precarious.<br \/>\nResponding, Onoja who said the prolonged staff screening exercise was inevitable as it has brought some kind of sanity to the\u00a0civil service\u00a0system in the state, however said\u00a0 government was looking into where it has goofed with a view to correcting it.<br \/>\nOn the percentage payment of local government workers, Onoja said this phenomenon has been existing before the advent of the current administration, a claim which the workers at the occasion responded to by shouting \u201c no, no ,no, you are lying\u201d<br \/>\nBeating a retreat, Onoja appealed to the workers to exercise patience with the government as efforts would now be geared towards paying their salaries as and when due pleading with the workers to support the re election bid of Governor Yahaya\u00a0Bello.<br \/>\nHe however said if by November this year, GovernorBello\u00a0was not re elected the incoming government will build on the legacy they would leave behind.<br \/>\nBy <strong>The SUN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kogi state governor, Yahaya\u00a0Bello\u00a0for the first time publicly admitted that his administration has committed blunder by owing workers between eight and 38 months due to the over two years staff screening exercise he initiated. Governor\u00a0Bello\u00a0who spoke through his Chief of Staff, Edward Onoja at the 7th NLC\u00a0 quadrennial congress on Thursday in Lokoja said \u201cwhen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}