Kano Workers To Validate Own March Salaries Before Payment

By Abdullahi Yusuf

Civil servants in Kano State are to validate their salaries for March before payment, to guard against any discrepancies in the process.

The Secretary to the State Government(SSG), Alhaji Faruk Umar Ibrahim, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Kano on Monday.

Ibrahim said the measure was necessitated by workers’ complaints of discrepancies including deductions in their January and February salaries.

He said the workers had been instructed through their Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to endeavour to verify the salaries put on their names and report any observed discrepancy for necessary action.

He said the workers’ salary lists would be pasted at strategic places in the premises of the MDAs and the secretariates of the 44 local governments in the state to facilitate the process.

The SSG said a committee had been set up to conduct the exercise aimed at addressing the reported discrepancies in the workers’ salaries.

He said the committee which is headed by the Head of Service, Alhaji Abdullahi Musa, had been charged to fastrack the exercise to enable the government to pay the March salaries as and when due.

He said government is aware of the approaching Eid-el-Ftr festival and would ensure the payment of the March salaries before the celebration.

Ibrahim assured that the exercise would not disrupt government operations in the MDAs and the local government Secretariats as necessary measures had been put in place to prevent such.