Sokoto State government and some civil servants Tuesday disagreed over the payment of workers’ salaries.
The state’s Commissioner for Information, Akibu Dalhatu said the current administration in the state had never failed to pay civil and public servants’ salaries since it came into force in 2015.
He said those who are yet to receive their salaries should visit their banks to sort out the issues.
But the workers under the auspices of the Coalition of Sokoto State Civil Servants dismissed the claim, describing it as “blatant lie.”
Addressing a press conference yesterday, the spokesman for the coalition, Ibrahim Musa, said the state’s civil servants were yet to be paid February 2023 salary.
“The statement made by the Commissioner of Information that the state government is not owing salary is false,” he said.
He noted that over 10,000 civil servants cutting across all cadres in ministries, departments and agencies were affected.
