Monday Okpebholo, APC candidate for the Edo governorship election has pledged to pay the outstanding salaries of the local government workers within first 100 days in office, if elected
By Usman Aliyu
Sen. Monday Okpebholo, APC candidate for the Edo governorship election has pledged to pay the outstanding salaries of the local government workers within first 100 days in office, if elected.
The pledge is contained in a statement by Kassim Afegbua, Director of Media for the APC Governorship Election Campaign Council on Thursday in Benin.
Afegbua quoted Okpebholo as saying that to owe council workers’ salaries in the 18 local governments of the state was worrisome.
Okpebholo pledged his readiness to discharge all outstanding salaries within his first 100 days in office, if elected.
“Every local government in Edo is being owed salaries ranging from two, three, four and six months respectively at a time the local government allocation has improved.
“Instead of releasing the funds and allocations that are due to the local governments, chairmen are often compelled to visit the Sterling Bank office in Benin, where they are made to sign that they have received their allocations, whereas, nothing has touched their hands.
“There are no capital projects in the local governments, and the worse of it is that salaries are still being owed,” he alleged.
Okpebholo, who listed the number of months owed in each of the local government areas, described the act as wickedness.
He assured all local government employees of prompt payment of their salaries, as well as paying all outstanding salaries within his 100 days in office.
“I assure the local governments that all allocations due to them will be handed over to them for proper growth and development of the rural areas.
“A vote for Senator Okpebholo is a vote for progress, development and robust collaboration between the state government and the local governments,” he said. (NAN)
