Rivers State Government clears six months pensioners’ salary …after biometric exercise

The Rivers State Government has cleared the six months’ outstanding pension arrears for all pensioners who have completed their biometric exercise.

The state Commissioner for Finance, Dr Fred Kpakol, told newsmen in Port Harcourt, at the weekend that this was in line with the commitment of Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike to enhance the welfare of retired workers.

Kpakol noted that the Wike-led administration will always give priority attention to the welfare of its workforce and retired workers.

The commissioner reiterated that the Rivers State Government has paid civil servants up to October, 2016.

He noted that the remaining 18,000 teachers who have completed their biometric capture would be paid their remaining two months’ outstanding salaries before the end of the year.

It would be recalled that the present administration in the state inherited four months’ civil servants salaries and eight months’ pension from the immediate past administration of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, which it had since cleared.

The administration, thereafter, embarked on biometric capture of civil servants and pensioners in the state to determine its workforce and the status of retired workers.

Wike’s Giant Strides Excite Military Researchers

Participants of the Senior Course 39 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, near Kaduna, have lauded Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike for the massive infrastructural development in the state, despite the economic crisis facing the nation.

Speaking in Port Harcourt last Friday after an extensive project tour with the governor in Obio/ Akpor and Port Harcourt City local government areas, Team Leader of the Senior Course 39 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Brigadier-General Johnson Irefen, noted that the works of the governor are a testimony of quality leadership.

Irefen said: “The good works of the governor are perfectly in line with our theme for this tour, which is, ‘Public Private Partnership: Enhancing Economic Development.’

“Where else can we see such examples, other than the places we visited today with the governor.

“He is doing well bearing in mind the economic downturn. We have seen good structures, projects”.

In his remarks, Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike said that his administration was serious about developing Port Harcourt into a modern city that will attract tourists.

He noted that his vision is to return Port Harcourt to its glorious days where all indigenes of the state will be proud.

The governor expressed satisfaction with the level of work at the project sites visited with members of the Senior Course 39 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji.

The governor and the participants of the Senior Course 39 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, inspected ongoing work at the Government House extension, the restoration of the old Brick House, Ogbum-nu-Abali/Nkpogu land reclamation project, second Nkpogu bridge/road, Woji-Akpajo link road/bridge, dualization of the Akpajo-Elelenwo road, Port Harcourt Pleasure Park, and the Government Secondary School, Rumuokwuta.