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Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello has blamed labour unrest in the state on the activities of those he described as “political civil servants” parading as workers.
Speaking with State House Correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, governor Bello said the workers that are on Strike are political civil servants.
He declared that the “The real civil servants are coming to work”, adding that the state government was doing its best to keep up with the payment of salaries.
“There is no denying the fact that the economy is hitting hard everywhere and you will recall that I met four months salary backlog, I cleared it and today we are keeping up to date.
“We are owing August and September as we speak. We are up to date in terms of salaries and those that come to work we shall pay them and those that don’t come to work, the no work no pay shall surely apply.”
Speaking on economic plans for the state, Bello said security and infrastructure is occupying a prime place on his economic agenda.
“First of all, before you attract tourists to your state you have to secure it, there must be infrastructure and all these are being taken care of as we speak and investors are coming in in their numbers to invests.
“I came to brief Mr. President of development in Kogi State, I need to give him updates on happenings in the state and he is pleased with the briefing that I gave to him. And he encouraged me to keep up the good job that I am doing in Kogi state.
“On the scale of one to 10 we are 70 percent, we are doing very well even though the I challenges are still there. Security is not what you tackle once and for all, you have to continue to do your best. The criminals, kidnappers, armed robbers, hoodlums will always device various tactics, they may change styles we have to change along with them and be ahead of them at any point in time in order to keep Kogi state secure and Kogi is currently secure.”
He opined that Kogi state for now is very stable and appeal to the people of the state to be patient with the government.
“The only thing is that the good people of Kogi state should continue to be patient with this government. Things are hard generally and we are trying are best and that is why we are transparent in everything that we do. I’m sure you are aware of the periodic publishing of our accounts, very soon we are going to publish all the salaries that we have paid to workers since inception in newspapers for people to see it. All the noise about Kogi is not paying salaries will be in public domain.”
Speaking on recent assaults on Journalist in the state, he noted that “You can never rule out overzealousness of some security agencies and any time they try to take laws into their hands, we will deal with it appropriately” adding that “those that tried to assault a journalist have been dealt with according to the law.”
