IMO STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, OWERRI
PRESS RELEASE
SUBJECT: IMO GOVERNMENT DENIES OWING
WORKERS ELEVEN MONTHS SALARY ARREARS
Some Patriotic Nigerians and Imo citizens in
particular have been inundating senior officials of the
Imo State Government with phone calls following
reports in some reputable National newspapers
including the Vanguard, New Telegraph, Guardian
among others, that the Owelle Rochas Okorocha’s
government is owing workers in the state eleven (11)
months salary arrears or thereabout.
The report in question made front page stories of
some of the newspapers concerned and as a
government, we owe Nigerians the correct
information on the workers salary in Imo which is
completely opposite of the media reports. And
whatever claim we make in this refutal, we stand to
be contradicted.
Again, in all the reports, the source of the story or
the source from where the information in the case of
Imo state came from was never made clear and that
lacuna also heightened our suspicion that those who
lost the governorship election in the state in April
2015, must have volunteered such falsehood. We are
not worried about that since we can always state the
truth of the matter. We see the whole report as
unfortunate and a deliberate effort to hit at the
Rescue Mission government in the state.
The truth is that Imo state government does not owe
the civil servants or the teachers who constitute the
government workers in the state eleven months
salary arrears and not even two months salary
arrears. We are making this claim to be contradicted
with verifiable fact.
The Imo state government only owes its civil servants
the month of May salary. Ditto, the teachers in the
state. And the payment for that month is at the verge
of being made. We have decided to make this factual
claim on the salaries of the civil servants and
teachers in the state so that those behind the report
can come out with their own facts to back their claim.
In the case of parastatals, the government has
equally be living up to expectations with regard to
payment of their salaries expect few of them where
the government’s verification panels discovered
irritating padding of salaries for non-existent staff
and where high-profiled corruption was uncovered.
And the government had for the umpteenth time said
it would only pay those in the affected parastatals
when the issues in question must have been rectified.
So, it is left for those behind the report with some of
them quoting a source from the Nigeria Labour
Congress, NLC, to come out and fault our claims or
refutal. We would like to be faulted on our claim that
we are owing the civil servants only the month of
May salary and the same development with the
teachers. These are the workers in the state we
believe the NLC source quoted in the reports must
have talked about.
If the newspapers that wrote the story on the claimed
debt of eleven months salary arrears owed the civil
servants and teachers in the state discover at the end
of the day that we are right in our claims contrary to
the reports under reference, we expect that as
reputable and widely read tabloids, they would
massage us by retracting the report at least for the
sake of the heard-earned reputation of the Rescue
Mission government in the state.
The government in Imo state with Governor Rochas
Okorocha on the driver’s seat shall continue to be
truthful and honest about its claims and counter-
claims on issues for the sake of history and posterity.

Just sit down in their office to type shit Datz y I don't read local papers No investigation Shay na al jazeera go dhe give me news?

I knew it cannot happen in the SE. Mere propaganda

Oguguah:
I knew it cannot happen in the SE. Mere propaganda

Why are you believing this when there is no source?Anybody can type this from his computer...One would rather believe the newspapers than this...

Source pls?

The IMSG should sue d tabloids if this is true.
News papers seems to make more revenue with false/-ve stories.

But why owe workers May salary sef?

This is the correct situation cos I hv people who work in imo that clarified me on that.

They should stop all this allegations against ROCHAS