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Ortom sacks 6,500 Benue LG workers to save over N200m

The staff verification exercise has reduced the workforce in Benue’s 23 local governments from 29,000 to 22,501, Mr Titus Zam, an aide to the governor, has disclosed.

Zam, Special Adviser to Gov. Samuel Ortom on Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, who made the disclosure at an accountability press briefing on Tuesday in Makurdi, said that the development had equally lowered the wage bill.
“Before the exercise, primary school teachers’ wage bill was N1.9 billion, now it is below N1.8 billion.

“The wage bill for the local government workers used to be N1.7 billion, but it has gone down to N1.6 billion.

“It means that the state has saved more than N200 million,” he said.

Zam said that the exercise had helped the state a great deal, but hinted that government was looking into measures to prune down the wage bill so as to free some funds for capital projects.

The official, however, lamented that the bureau had a lot of cases in courts across the state, and declared that “even five years allocation cannot be sufficient to prosecute them”.

The official cautioned managements of local governments against acts that could lead to litigation, and particularly warned them against signing contracts “just to please political friends”.
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