7,800 civil servants in Jigawa may lose April salary over verification

No fewer than 7800 unverified civil servants may lose their April salaries in Jigawa State.

This is following the verification and enrollment of state and local government workers into the integrated personnel Payroll Management System (IPPMS) in the State.

DAILY POST reported that the worker’s verification was characterized by challenges where workers were subjected to injuries during the rushed and ill-organized data capture exercise.

The exercise was also marred by alleged extortion of various sums of money from workers.

This was disclosed in a communique released after the Joint Emergency State Executive Council, SEC, of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, convened to address the pressing issues by the NLC chairperson Sanusi Alhassan, by the council

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The NLC urged the state government to consider the problems and pay the unverified workers their salaries using the old system until they are successfully captured and verified in the system.

However, the state Deputy Governor, Aminu Usman said the unverified workers are 7783 and out of them 4496 who are J-teach workers have already been screened by SUBEB.

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He said the remaining permanent and pensionable workers will also be screened soon.

According to him, ” As I am speaking to you now all these workers have already received their salaries because we have to use the old system to pay them their salaries”

7,800 civil servants in Jigawa may lose April salary over verification

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