Nyesom Wike,
Rivers state governor, has told civil servants in the state that only those
with confirmed bank verification numbers (BVN) will get salaries. Speaking in
Port Harcourt, capital of the state, when the governing council of the Rivers
State Science and Technology visited him on Thursday,
Wike said the move would
allow the government determine the actual number of staff employed by the state.
“This month, if you don’t submit your BVN and physically identify yourself, you
will not be paid. If only 20 staff have their BVN verified physically, they
will be the only staff to be paid,” Simeon Nwakaudu, the governor’s media aide,
quoted him as saying. “With a wage and pension bill of N8.4billion monthly, the
state government is determined to stop all wastages.”
Wike also
announced that the state government would no longer pay the salaries of primary
and secondary school teachers of Demonstration Schools of the state university,
RSUST, and other designated tertiary institutions where pupils and students pay
school fees. He said the state government had completed the payment of salary
arrears of recalled lecturers sacked by the immediate past administration. The
governor also approved the setting up of a College of Medicine and a Teaching
Hospital at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology. He said the
government would support the establishment of the College of Medicine and
Teaching Hospital for the RSUST as part of the pledge he made to the people of
the state. Earlier, Iche Ndu, the pro-chancellor of the RSUST, commended Wike
for investing in the development of the university through development projects
and programmes.
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