Although the government press statement signed by the Governor’s media aide, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, explained that “government delayed the payment of the health workers’ salaries to enable it resolve the issues of certain questionable allowances and gross case of unseriousness on the part of the health workers”, Vanguard however gathered that “the health workers preferred to forego the salary since it was unreasonably and inexplicably slashed by government”.
Apart from the health workers, Governor Okorocha also directed that all the workers should be paid their salaries up to 10 months.
His words: “The truth is that there was never a time the state government intended to owe the health workers in the state.
“The only thing was that the government was not satisfied with health workers’ conduct and their poor service delivery to the people, despite the huge amount spent on the payment of their salaries and allowances.”
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