The Plateau State government yesterday said it received N4.2 billion as its share of the federal government bailout fund to clear backlog of workers’ salaries.
Daily Trust gathered that the state’s share of the intervention was paid Thursday last week, before the Sallah holiday, and the state said it had commenced payment of salary arrears.
Spokesman of the state governor, Samuel Emmanuel Nanle, yesterday confirmed in a chat with Daily Trust that the state received the sum of N4.2 billion, out of which the sum of N1.7billion was for the local government councils, while the state has the remaining N2.5 billion for workers’ salary arrears.
“Immediately the money hit the account, we started payment. Those at the local government have received alert and others will get theirs soon,” the governor’s media aide said.
The organised labour on the Plateau, including the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the Joint Union of Plateau State Tertiary Institutions (JUPTI), and the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) had embarked on strike over non-payment of salaries. They only resumes after the governor appealed to the workers to resume, while pledging to clear the arrears.