Salary increment: Abia won’t go ahead of FG – D/CoS

This was disclosed by the Deputy Chief of Staff (D/CoS) to Governor Alex Otti, Chinedu Ekeke while briefing newsmen after the State Exco meeting.

While assuring that the Dr. Otti led administration was interested in the welfare of the workers in the state, he however said the state government would wait for the outcome of negotiations between the federal government and workers.

“The federal government is currently considering a wage review and negotiations are ongoing and at the state executive council level, we are monitoring that conversation.

“Our stand as a state government is that we do not want to go ahead of the federal government to make a proclamation on that because you do not know where the direction the  federal government is headed.

“So, it’s better for us to wait and then see what the federal government wants to do and then we now look at what we can afford as a state and then move but clearly, the state government is interested in the improvement of workers’ welfare and salaries’ increment is part of that plan.”

On his own, the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Okey Kanu said the Otti administration has fixed a total of 70 roads in Aba and Umuahia in the last 11 months of its life.