Zamfara State Government Pays Gratuity To 494 Local Government Retirees
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By Aminu Abdullahi Gusau.
No fewer than 494 Zamfara state local government retirees have been paid their gratuity, and the verification is on going till all of the retired local government employees are paid.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Malam Garba Ahmad Gusau, who also is the Chairman of the committee of the verification and payments of the backlog gratuities, made the disclosure today while speaking to newsmen in Gusau
He said the state government has plan to pay gratuities to over 5,000 local government retired workers as 494 already received their payments after due verification by the ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
According to him, the first batch of the retirees are from 2011 to 2013, and have already been settled, and the second batch are those who retired from 2015 to 2016 numbering to over 405, including the left over, while the batch three are 500, as according to him, when ever they receive the money from the governor they will be paid without further delay.
The Chairman of the committee, said the committee has the period of 30 days to complete the exercise despite some challenges ranging from processing payments for the dead beneficiaries and the missing of parts of integral documents presented by some retirees.
“For those who found some of their required documents missing as result of either fire accident or misplacement, we suggested they should obtain clearing letters from the courts”, he stressed
He called on the beneficiaries to ensure judicial use of their monies in supporting their families and on the other hand to establish small scale businesses to support their living
