Shettima apologises for not paying salaries before Sallah in Borno

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima on Sunday tendered an apology to civil servants in the state for his inability to pay salaries for the month of June 2017 before the Eid el-fitr celebration. He said: "It was not my making not to pay salaries before the Sallah, but that of technical fault in the capturing […]

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima on Sunday tendered an apology to civil servants in the state for his inability to pay salaries for the month of June 2017 before the Eid el-fitr celebration.

He said: "It was not my making not to pay salaries before the Sallah, but that of technical fault in the capturing and downloading of the salaries lists from the computer on Friday.

"Although we were able to pay our pensioners, Civilian JTF members and our adhoc staff from the Borno State Environmental Protection Agency, BOSEPA, because we normally pay these groups of people on table, it is unfortunate that all civil servants from State and Local Government Level are yet to be paid due to the e-banking system where we had a little hitches with our platform," Shettima said.

He also explained that it was not intentional, as throughout his six year tenure, prompt payment of salaries/allowances of civil servants across the state was given priority by government, in which, civil servants recieved their salaries as at when due despite the economic challenges posed by Boko Haram insurgency.