By; SULAIMAN AHMED MISAU, Katsina
Governor Dikko Umaru Radda of Katsina State has reaffirmed his administration’s preparedness to implementing the new national minimum wage to workers in the state.
Governor Dikko Radda gave the assurance in an address at this year’s may day celebration organized by the state council of the Nigeria labour Congress NLC at Muhammadu Dikko Stadium Katsina.
The governor maintained that the state administration is more committed toward ensuring the full take off of the contributory state pension scheme.
This he said was to avoid the problem of non payment of benefits to the workers after retirement.
Already he said the secretary and three other technical Directors had since been appointed towards it’s successful take off.
According to him, valuation of staff of state, local governments and local education authorities had since been commenced.
Governor Dikko Radda maintained that, the state administration had granted an approval for the payment of accumulative backlog of gratuities and death benefits amounting to over four eight billion naira inherited from the past administration.
He said the amount covering the period of between 2023 to date for the retired and dead staff of both state, the local governments and LEA’s would be cleared in six instalments from January to to June this year.
The governor however said he granted an approval for the continuation of the payment of gratuities from the month of July when the outstanding gratuities and death benefits is cleared
Government he said, has committed over one hundred and thirty seven million naira on the sponsorship of 2,263 civil servants of different cadres to undergo short and long term training programs.adding that over two hundred million naira had been injected to into the workers revolving loan scheme.
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