₦airaland Forum

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.
 
Sam Onwuemeodo
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor

Wadz d big deal Y dhe bragging As if no be our rite to collect salary Use less govt

I wonder if it was true how come he won his re-election because i know Osun people are learning in a hard way now.

I expect d state to sue those newspaper

Who then is owing the workers

Vicadonis:
Who then is owing the workers

only Aregbe owes verifiable salary arrears of 7 months.

how many month is he owning??

Water under the bridge

Move on already

MrBully:
I'm sorry I had to quote you here. The main thread where u made this comment has been locked, so I couldn't quote u directly.
I just want to bring to ur notice that Berem is not Igbo. She's a Yoruba MILF from Ogun State but happens to know a lot of Igbo people and understand the language as well. Please stop calling her Igbo cos she's not, and she's not your ''sister''. The same as her colleagues Om.enka and Ukwugene or whatever. The only real Igbo person among her cliche is Obiagel.li. Sorry to disturb you. THANKS

Rochas is owing IMO workers o.
Plenty of months. Don't know the particular number of months.
I've civil servants who can attest to that.

Horrible man.

cococandy:
Rochas is owing IMO workers o.
Plenty of months. Don't know the particular number of months.
I've civil servants who can attest to that.

Horrible man.

Since you don't know the particular number of months,i think it will be best for you to stop this your unnecessary hatred against governor okorocha.A gov will be owing his workers 11 months and yet no strike action?

Jorussia:
Since you don't know the particular number of months,i think it will be best for you to stop this your unnecessary hatred against governor okorocha.A gov will be owing his workers 11 months and yet no strike action?

unnecessary hatred?

You're funny.

cococandy:
unnecessary hatred?

You're funny.

What's funny about my post? I just stated the obvious about you. You are simply being mischievous and heinous about the 11months salary purportedly being owed by IMO govt.Do you what it means to be owing workers 11months salary self?

Jorussia:
What's funny about my post? I just stated the obvious about you. You are simply being mischievous and heinous about the 11months salary purportedly being owed by IMO govt.Do you what it means to be owing workers 11months salary self?

Phew not another retardd today.

Did you hear me say I know for a fact that he owes 11 months?
I only CLEARLY stated that I know he's owing some months. Which I know for a FACT.
Just that I'm not sure how many months it is.
I said that clearly in my first post.

And somehow you managed to understand it to mean hatred for the governor and mischief?

Do they send some of you out of the cesspit of ediocy to come and annoy other posters?
fvkcing ediot.

cococandy:
Phew not another retardd today.

Did you hear me say I know for a fact that he owes 11 months?
I only CLEARLY stated that I know he's owing some months. Which I know for a FACT.
Just that I'm not sure how many months it is.
I said that clearly in my first post.

And somehow you managed to understand it to mean hatred for the governor and mischief?

Do they send some of you out of the cesspit of ediocy to come and annoy other posters?
fvkcing ediot.

You don't know how many months the man is owing and you described him in your first post a wickedman?my sister if your conscience is still intact, you would have buried your head in shame,for your attempt to mislead unsuspecting nairalanders.You are confirmed mischief maker,and an irresponsible Lady who should not be taking seriously.What have you gained so far for selling your soul to the devil?Don't dare quote me,because if you do,i will teach you a very bitter lesson.

Jorussia:
You don't know how many months the man is owing and you described him in your first post a wickedman?my sister if your conscience is still intact, you would have buried your head in shame,for your attempt to mislead unsuspecting nairalanders.You are confirmed mischief maker,and an irresponsible Lady who should not be taking seriously.What have you gained so far for selling your soul to the devil?Don't dare quote me,because if you do,i will teach you a very bitter lesson.

What have I gained by selling my soul to the devil? Mmm let's see, the worker's salaries may eventually be paid if I lend my voice to those who are already exposing his act of wickedness?

But What have you gained from selling your soul to Rochas. Let me guess. A pail of rice and 1liter of vegetable oil?

Monkey.

You will teach me a bitter lesson?

Lord help me.I'm conversing with a lunatic.

Pray tell what are you going to do?
Shoot a missile through your computer and kill me all the way from wherever you are?

From your first comment, I should have known you have garri where your brain is supposed to be.
That explains it.

My bad.

Rochas imo youth must work programme he is owing the nine month ie those on teaching, those posred to the ministries and local govts six months each on unpaid salaries the funniest thing is that he pays these graduates 20k per month.