Salary Arrears: Sokoto Civil Servants Seek Sultan’s Intervention

Civil servants in Sokoto State have appealed to the Sultan of Sokoto and other well-meaning leaders to prevail on Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to settle the arrears of their 2023 February and March salaries.

The workers under the aegis of Coalition of Sokoto State Civil Servants made the call while addressing journalists on the plight of over 5,000 civil servants that have not been paid the February and March salary by the state government.

The leader of the coalition, Comrade Ibrahim A Musa of Shehu Shagari College of Education, at a press conference narrated that, “as of Friday last week more than 10,000 civil servants in the state were not paid their February and March salary.

“The comments made by the state commissioner for information, Muhammad Akibu Dalhatu, that the state government is not owing civil servants’ arrears of two months’ salary has provoked the affected civil servants to hold this press conference and seek the intervention of His Eminence, the Sultan.”

The matter according to the coalition leader had been tabled before the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The state chairman of the NLC, however, gave the coalition the green light to go ahead with their press conference.

“If the present administration fails to listen to the words of wisdom from well-meaning individuals in the state, we will be left with no option than to approach the court to seek legal redress.

“We have families and other dependents who solely rely on us for their survival. How do you think we can manage them at this crucial moment without our little monthly earning?

“Since the declaration of Sokoto State governor-elect, Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto, work has been paralysed at the two secretariats in the state, the Usman Faruk and Shehu Kangiwa Secretariats.”