celebrateMay Day, gloom, frustration, bitterness, anger, lamentation,
and despair are not enough to describe their mood as not more than 10
states have fully paid workers' salaries and allowances up to
date.Investigation showed that only Edo, Lagos, Delta, Ebonyi,
Anambra, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Kano and Enugu states have paid
their workers' salaries and allowances up to April.However, Rivers
State has paid March salary and pension up to February, Borno State
has paid up to March with the exception of its Hosing Corporation
workers, while Ogun State, though paid salary, has neither remitted
pension deductions from workers' salaries for months, and has not paid
gratuities since 2012.Among the indebted states are Ekiti, Kwara,
Kaduna, Osun, Plateau, Ondo, Abia, Bayelsa, Oyo, Imo, Kogi and
Benue.According to checks, while Ekiti State is owing not less two
months salaries, the number of months owed pensioners were not known
at the time of this report.In Kwara, local government workers and the
State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, have not been paid
between four and five months salaries, staff of the state Water
Corporation have not been paid for the past six months, while other
paratatals have not been paid in the last two months.Similarly,
workers and pensioners in Kaduna State have not been paid about seven
months arrears, while Osun has unpaid outstandingsalaries from July
2015 to January 2016.Plateau State, pensioners areowed eight months,
council workers, four months while other workers are owed
threemonths.In Ondo State, while pensioners are owed four months,
civil servants are owed five.In Abia State, civil servants are owed
between two and four months, but workers of the state Health
ManagementBoard have not been paid since December 2015.In the same
vein, while civil servants in Imo State were last paid 70 percent of
their salaries in January, pensioners cannot even remember when they
were last paid.Workers in Oyo State are owed between two and five
months, their counterparts inKogi are owed five months, while those in
Benue State are owed three months.