The Kogi State Government has began the payment of April salaries to civil servants.
Inspite the agreement to pay 80% salaries to workers, those in the grade levels of 1-6, were paid in full, while pensioners who retired before harmonization also got their pensions in full.
The salary payment to the workers was confirmed by the Kogi State Commissioner for Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Asiwaju Idris Asiru, said the commitment to workers by the present administration would not be taken for granted.
According to the Commissioner, the covid 19 pandemic has opened up new thinking, said the government has decided to remodel and equip the Specialists Hospital Lokoja, Diagnostic Centre and Okene General Hospitals to meet the health care needs of the people.
He disclosed that the pandemic has shown that a time would come when people can no longer travel out of the country or to other states to get medical attention, hence the need to fix Hospitals in the state.
He pointed out that government overhead has been cut down to almost zero percent, while the overhead has been cut down also to ten percent, with recurrent expenditure now cut to eighty percent.
The Commissioner disclosed that the capital expenditure aside the health sector is now zero percent, said the times calls for belt tightening measures, sacrifice and prayers for the coming allocation to get better, pointing out that the drop in sales of oil and the covid 19 pandemic calls for concern.
