{"id":34653,"date":"2024-05-30T06:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T06:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/zamfara-i-inherited-over-n13bn-pension-gratuity-backlogs-gov-lawal\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T06:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T06:02:55","slug":"zamfara-i-inherited-over-n13bn-pension-gratuity-backlogs-gov-lawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/zamfara-i-inherited-over-n13bn-pension-gratuity-backlogs-gov-lawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara: I inherited over N13bn pension, gratuity backlogs \u2013 Gov Lawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal has revealed that his administration inherited over thirteen billion Naira pension and gratuity backlogs from the previous governments.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor disclosed this on Wednesday during his one year anniversary ceremony in Gusau, the State capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, from inception of his administration to date, he has settled over N5 billion pension and gratuity backlogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI inherited over thirteen billion Naira pension and gratuity backlog from the previous governments starting from 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI settled over five billion Naira pension and gratuity backlogs within one year in office and I will make sure every retired civil servant gets their gratuity and pension backlogs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, Lawal reiterated that his administration was working round the clock to rescue the state socially and economically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sectors of security, education, youth empowerment, agriculture, health care, and good governance will continue to receive much emphasis as part of my administration\u2019s rescue mission,\u201d he assured.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor appealed to the people of the state to remain law abiding citizens and support the good policies and programs of his administration to actualise its dream.<\/p>\n<p>Zamfara: I inherited over N13bn pension, gratuity backlogs \u2013 Gov Lawal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal has revealed that his administration inherited over thirteen billion Naira pension and gratuity backlogs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3122,15,419],"tags":[422,180,28],"class_list":["post-34653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawal","category-news","category-zamfara","tag-lawal","tag-news","tag-zamfara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34653","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=34653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}