RSG Plans Committee On Workers Salary Review

As part of efforts to enhance service delivery in Rivers State, the state government says it would constitute a committee to review the condition of service of civil servants and make it comparatively better in the federation.

The committee, which would be headed by the state Head of Service, Mrs. Esther Anucha, is to review the current pay structure of the workers in keeping with Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’s adminstration’s belief in paying its workers a living wage.

This was disclosed Wednesday by the Commissioner for Information, Mrs. Ibim Seminetari, while briefing Government House Correspondents on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting in Port Harcourt.

Mrs. Seminetari said the move was to ensure that all civil servants in the state were paid the same consolidated salary as their counterparts in the federal civil service, stressing that the state government would maintain its stand that no state pays its workers higher than Rivers State.

The Information Commissioner also hinted that the Executive Council resolved to begin a tree planting campaign that would encourage residents of the state to participate in tree planting and promotion of a green environment in response to the restoration of Port Harcourt to its Garden city status.

She also said the executive Council lauded the Ministry of Health for its focus on total eradication of malaria as a means of promoting good and healthy population, noting that the agreement with a Cuban firm to manufacture vector malaria parasite insecticides, was a right step in the right direction.

Mrs. Seminetari, explained that the Malaria free state project would create employment and wealth by saving money for the state government that would have been spent on treatment.

Also speaking, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker said the state government has already signed an agreement with a Cuban company (Labio Farm) to manufacture biological materials to eliminate the vector that transmits and transfers the disease noting that it would ultimately eradicate malaria in the state.