The Jigawa State Government has approved N10,000 wage awards to state and local governments’ civil servants.
The Commissioner of Information, Youth, Sports, and Culture, Hon Sagir Musa Ahmed, disclosed this to newsmen after the state executive council meeting on Friday.
He said the decision came after deliberations on the Memorandum presented by the State Head of Civil
Service (HOS) for payment of salary awards to Jigawa State Civil Servants.
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According to him, “The State Executive Council has, after its deliberations, approved the sum of Ten Thousand Naira (N10,000) to each civil servant in the state for three months, effective January 2024, as salary award.
“The award for the Jigawa State Civil Servants (both state and local government workers) pending when a new national minimum wage is expected to have been signed into law and other palliative.”
It could be recalled that the Federal Government and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have agreed to a N35,000 wage award to civil servants following the removal of fuel subsidy.
Governor Namadi had in December 2023 announced a plan to secure a N2 billion loan to pay the gratuities of retired civil servants including those who retired from the local governments in the state.
This follows the failure of the 27 local governments in the state to remit at least N3.2 billion in statutory pension deductions and contributions for several years.
PREMIUM TIMES exclusively reported that the local councils did not remit appropriate pension dues in 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2021, as mandated by law. The non-remittal of the funds put the state contributory pension scheme in distress.