{"id":16425,"date":"2024-02-10T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T11:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/zamfara-govt-begins-payment-of-n13-4b-gratuity-backlog\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T11:02:33","slug":"zamfara-govt-begins-payment-of-n13-4b-gratuity-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/zamfara-govt-begins-payment-of-n13-4b-gratuity-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara govt begins payment of N13.4b gratuity backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Zamfara State Government has commenced the payment of the backlog of N13.4 billion in gratuities to retired civil servants in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the state government had established a committee to authenticate retired civil servants\u2019 data to pay off the gratuity debt accumulated from 2011 to date.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Saturday, the spokesman of the Governor, Sulaiman Bala Idris, revealed that the retirees who have been owed gratuities since 2011 finally started receiving their payments.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that the backlog of gratuities accumulated over the years is now being cleared and payment commenced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State government has taken a significant step towards addressing the outstanding debt of gratuity owed to retirees, which comprises death gratuities, retirement gratuities, and contract gratuities\u201d, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Dauda Lawal set up a committee to validate and authenticate retiree data to settle the debt of gratuities that has accumulated since 2011\u2033<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter validating the data of retired civil servants, the government discovered that the total amount owed from state and local governments is 13.4 billion Naira\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe committee has already gone far with the authentication of data submitted by local government and state pension commission and physical verification of beneficiaries\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetired state and local government employees who were verified have begun to receive their gratuity payments since Thursday\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government would ensure that all retirees are authenticated and paid their gratuities without any difficulties\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Zamfara State Government is fulfilling its promise to serve the people of the State by rescuing and rebuilding the state for the better\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zamfara govt begins payment of N13.4b gratuity backlog<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zamfara State Government has commenced the payment of the backlog of N13.4 billion in gratuities to retired civil servants&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,419],"tags":[180,28],"class_list":["post-16425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-zamfara","tag-news","tag-zamfara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}