At a plenary today (Monday) the Adamawa lawmakers have condemned the report of the Maurice Wonobolki ad-hoc committee on Local Governments Staff Salaries investigation conducted some weeks ago,declaring it to be “null and avoid”.
A lawmaker representing Jada Mbula in the Adamawa state House of Assembly, Hon Umar Hammanjoda who raised the motion and argued that the report of the committee did not have a taste of a throughout job, it resulted in affecting thousands of workers from the 21 LGAs of the state who have been working and reached certain level in the commission.
“What we are generally saying the committee has not done what it suppose to do to cautioned the incessant salaries problems, the good intentions of Governor Bindow to sanitise the salaries problems of the 21 LGAs have not been done well by the committee that is saddled with the responsibility”. Umar Said
Umar suggest that the Governor Bindow led administration before implementing the e-payment for the LGA employees that denied thousands of people their salaries should revisit the screening exercise done by the committee that was saddled with the responsibility of the exercise.
Another Member who is representing the people of Madagali constituency, Hon. Emmanuel Tsamdu Said that the exercise have succeeded in chasing innocent indigenes of the state.
He lamented that over 270 indigenes of Madagali were affected, explaining that some have worked for 10,12 and even 13 years receiving salaries but all of a sudden their names did not appear for their monthly salaries.
“What that committee did is totally unacceptable, we want to know the parameters they used In sacking people of level 10,12, and 13 sacking them in the name of ghost workers “. Tsandu Laments
Recall that the reports of the committee uncovered over 12,000 staff of the Local Government commission are ghost workers and according to the reports there are people who are under aged and are in the salary roll payment of the commission.
Adamawa state Government had earlier announced that all those affected and are genuine staff should come and present themselves to a committee who will entertain their complains.
