RSG Up-To-Date On Salaries

The Rivers State Government has declared that it is up-to-date in terms of salary payment to her workforce.
In an interview, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, the state Commissioner for Finance, Dr Fred Kpakol, insisted that only staff who are yet to complete their biometric exercise are the ones who have not been paid.
The commissioner stated that about 75 per cent of the state’s workforce had been captured and paid their monthly salaries for the preceding months.
He said, “the moment you do your biometric to authenticate that you are a bona-fide civil servant, you get paid. For those who will be captured this month, they will be paid their outstanding salaries thereafter.
“Rivers State is not owing salaries. The state is doing biometric authentication of civil servants which is a three-month exercise. The exercise ends on July 29, 2016. By then, we will have a comprehensive data of all bonafide civil servants in the state,” Kpakol said.
The commissioner added that the process for the payment of June salaries has been concluded.
In a statement, Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, recalled that Governor Nyesom Wike had directed that only civil servants who have undergone biometric exercise be paid.
The statement added that so far, the Rivers State Government has saved N2billion through the highly successful biometric capture of civil servants in the state.