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.