Titus Eleweke Awka I Monday, May 1, 2023
AWKA, Nigeria – Governor of Anambra State Prof Charles Soludo has threatened to cut salaries of workers who absent themselves on sit at home days in the state.
The governor gave the threat while addressing Anambra state workforce at May day celebration held at Dr. Alex Ekwueme square Awka on Monday.
According to him, Monday sit at home has become an excuse for workers to stop coming to work on Mondays, noting that it cannot continue. Recently, soludo increased workers salaries by 10 percent.
“You cannot be working for just four days a week and earn full salaries. We must get back to working on Monday to the government. If we do not go to work, we must not get out full salary. We must be paid proportionally to number of days we work. If we must continue not attending work on Monday, we must direct Saturday work. You must do your work and we cannot be working for 70 percent and earn 110 percent. We will cut your salaries when you fail to come work on Monday ” he said .
The governor also stated that the state government has been running on N88 billion budget deficit in the last one year.
According to Soludo,the 2023 Budget was predicted on N4 billions Internal generated revenue every months but they have been generating only N2 billions
He also stated that the state was supposed to be getting N5 billions from Federal government but it is getting less.
Soludo called on the workers to buckle up and work towards generating revenue for government in order to take care of the workers welfare and other state pressing issues.
The governor said that there is pressure on him to increase salaries and down size workforce and urged labour leaders to study the proposal.
