Traders Laud Wike Over Salary Payments

Traders at the newly re
constructed section of  Mile 1 Market, Port Harcourt, have commended Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over the payment of salary arrears owed civil servants.
The Chairman, Electoral Committee, an interim governing body of the market union, Mr Albert Okerenta, gave this commendation in an interview in his office on Tuesday.
Okerenta, also a patent medicine dealer in the Mile 1 Market noted that civil servants were their major customers, explaining that the non- payment of their salaries also affected traders’ tournover.
“The traders also share in the welfare of workers, so when they are owed, we are also affected,” he stated.
He lamented that since the general elections “things have been dull, even now. Things wont just change over night so may have incurred some debts during the time salaries were not paid so they must budget whatever they get now to service all quarters”.
He thanked the governor for his proactive gesture and urged him to continue his good deeds while challenging the civil servants to meet him halfway by diligently discharging their duties and shun truancy and indolence

Tonye Nria-Dappa