Why Abia State Civil Servants Need Help Urgently

The agony of Abia State civil servants is unexplainable, the hunger , the suffering and the pain is better heard than experienced.

Most times you see follow Abians comment on party lines, but forget the pain is real in the life of so many Abians.

Please before you start pointing fingers or defending our person or political party, listen to this story, maybe it will make you understand the real situation of things.

AFN brings you a short story of Mr. Emmanuel Jonah Kalu, an academic staff of Abia Poly, Aba, Abia State. 


Mr. Emmanuel was reacting to our story “N14 Billion is not enough to clear salary backlog”.
Please read his comment, if it does not touch you, then you have an issue.

“I’m moved by self pity to write this. I don’t understand why governor Okezie will delay payments of our salaries since the state has received the bailout fund. Last night I came back home and I felt incomplete because I couldn’t save my family from going to bed without dinner. This is a position I recently boosted to Precious Nwankodo that I can’t be in. My concern is not that I have ulcers and I am going to bed without dinner but I don’t know how long this trend will go on. And it’s a dire position.

I took loan from GTBANK and due to delays in salaries, my salary account is in negative values almost four times my monthly. I am owing rent and other distracting bills. What that means is that anything less than five of my six months salary arrears will not bring dinner in view.

The federal government bailout fund has arrived and the governor can only pay in, not this month end but in another month end. This period will be used by a committee to identify ghost workers. That sounds good to me. But since our governor claimed that he has already save the state over N300,000,000.00 from irregular salary voucher, what again is the purpose of the committee and delay to my dinner?

That reminds me of cursory accusation by a friend. He said that if the bailout fund is fixed in bank or trade in capital markets for almost two months that governor and his cohorts will gain over two hundred million Naira. My worries is not that I have ulcers and I am going to bed on empty stomach. What is my human value? This is concern.”

Abia State workers need help.