Gratuity: Katsina Govt Verifies 4,000 Staff, To Pay N8bn

Katsina State government has commenced verification of no fewer than 4,000 staff preparatory to payment of N8 billion gratuity.

Special assistant to the state governor on Radio Monitoring and Public Relations, Mansur Ali Mashi said those to be verified and paid comprised of local governments and LEA staffs, and, state civil  servants who had left service from November 2015 to December 2016.

He said the state government would use part of the refund from Paris Club debt relief to settle the outstanding workers entitlements noting “this is in furtherance of Governor Masari’s pledge to ensure prompt payment of pension, gratuity and other entitlements of civil servants.”

He said the affected local government and LEA staffs being verified and paid are those who either died or disengaged from the service between November 2015 and December 2016 while affected state civil servants are those from January to December 2016.

Mashi who is a member of the verification committee currently sitting at the state secretariat conference hall in Katsina, said the essence was to clear backlog of gratuity and pension arrears owed staffs.

“The latest payment is coming on the heels of N11 billion pension and gratuity paid to deserving staffs and or their next of kin as inherited liability from the immediate past PDP administration in the state”

“Additionally too, the state government will soon verify and subsequently settle all the entitlements of other deserving staffs who were unjustly schemed out by the previous administration,” he added.

It would be recalled that the state government recently set up a verification committee under the chairmanship of former accountant general in the state, Alhaji Umaru Adamu.

Source: Leadership